Darwin

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Contents 1 Other uses 1.1 People with the surname Darwin

Darwin most commonly refers to:

• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), renowned naturalist and thinker associated with the theory of evolution by natural selection
• Darwin, Northern Territory, Australian city and the capital of the Northern Territory
• Darwin (operating system), a low level computer operating system used as the lower layer of Apple's Mac OS X

Darwin may also refer to:

• Darwin (ADL), an architecture description language (ADL)
• Darwin (ESA), a multiple-satellite project planned by the European Space Agency
• Darwin (comics), a character in Marvel Universe
• Darwin (programming game), a programming game developed in the 1960s
• Darwin (unit), a unit of evolution
• Darwin!, an album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
• Darwin, California
• Darwin, Minnesota
• Darwin, Ohio
• Darwin, Falkland Islands
• Darwin IV, fictional planet in Expedition by Wayne Douglas Barlowe
• Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter, a fictional extra-solar system probe that probed the fictional planet Darwin IV, the name was probably inspired by the real life Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

[edit] Other uses

• Darwin fish
• Darwin's Nightmare, a 2004 Documentary Film directed by Hubert Sauper
• Darwin Medal
• Darwin Awards
• RRS Charles Darwin
• Mount Darwin (California)
• Mount Darwin (Andes), mountain in the Andes Mountains
• Mount Darwin, Tasmania
• Darwin Dam (Tasmania)
• Darwin Mountains, mountain range in Antarctica
• Darwin Glacier (Antarctica), a glacier in Antarctica
• Darwin College, Cambridge, a college in the University of Cambridge
• Charles Darwin University, university in Darwin, Northern Territory
• Darwin Information Typing Architecture, an XML standard
• Darwin's finches, a group of related birds from the Galápagos Islands
• Darwin's Rhea, a species of rhea, a flightless bird from South America
• Darwin ward, a ward in medical drama Holby City

[edit] People with the surname Darwin

• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), renowned biologist
• Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) , Charles' grandfather, himself a naturalist and doctor with early published ideas about evolution
• George Darwin (1845–1912), Charles Darwin's son, astronomer and mathematician
• Leonard Darwin (1850–1943), Charles Darwin's son, economist, eugenicist, and politician
• Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962), George Darwin's son, mathematician, physicist and eugenicist
• ...and other members of the Darwin — Wedgwood family
• Mike Darwin (1955–), cryonics pioneer, writer, leader and scientific researcher; no direct relation to Charles Darwin