Popularly referred to as the father of evolution, Charles Darwin was the fifth son of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgewood born the same year and day as Abraham Lincoln, a historical icon, on February 12, 1809 He had four sisters, three older than him and one younger while his brother was older than him and they belonged to a privileged, rich and well-known family. He held his father, Robert Waring Darwin, in high regard and was a renowned doctor with connections among the local gentry and new industrialists. Notably, his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, was also a physician and poet with a predilection for natural philosophy where his patients came from wealthy backgrounds, one of whom was Josiah Wedgewood. Erasmus Darwin proposed a natural explanation for the origin and development of life in his book Zoonomia, published in 1974, examining the domestication of animals, cross-fertilization of plants along with the movement of climbing plants. Various of his works discussed the mechanism of inheritance and made observations on sexual selection. It is important to recognize the intellectual atmosphere in which Charles and his father grew up (Berra, 2009). He was born in Shrewsbury, England, during the time of King George III and Jane Austen and coming from upper-class families, this meant that his family's social life centered on conversations about politics and literature, dinners with neighbors, correspondence and books. Due to the fact that Josiah Wedgewood was a close family friend, the Darwins and the Wedgewoods maintained a mutual respect for each other and both participated in the anti-slavery movement. He suffered the loss of his mother at the age of eight but fortunately, ... middle of paper ... a tribute to the field of psychology especially through actual observation of his own child. This shed light on the topic of developmental psychology where he compared the stages that children go through to the stages of the evolutionary process. In particular, he focused attention on the emotional expressions of humans and some animals, suggesting that they were traces of movements that previously had a practical function. His findings and observations provided a new foundation for the field of psychology in which scholars and researchers began to examine the emotional aspects of human beings from the perspective of evolution. In his short observation-based publication, his son stated that certain emotions experienced by children, being unaffected by experience, were inherited effects of real dangers and hopeless superstitions during ancient and primitive times...