Darwin
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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, capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia, named after Charles Darwin
Darwin may also refer to:
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[edit] People
- The Darwin-Wedgwood family:
- Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), Charles Darwin's grandson, golf writer
- Carola Darwin, Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, opera singer
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882), renowned biologist
- Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962), Charles Darwin's grandson, mathematician, physicist and eugenicist
- Emma Darwin (1808–1896), Charles Darwin's wife
- Emma Darwin (novelist), Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, novelist
- 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
- Robert Darwin (1766–1848), Charles' father
- Mike Darwin (1955–), cryonics pioneer, writer, and scientific researcher
- John Darwin disappearance case--regarding John Darwin (1950–), a former teacher and prison officer who received extensive coverage in the UK media in 2007 for alleged insurance fraud involving the faking of his own death
[edit] Places
In Antarctica:
In Australia:
- Charles Darwin Reserve, Western Australia
- Charles Darwin University, university in Darwin, Northern Territory
- Darwin, Northern Territory
- Darwin International Airport, located in Darwin, Northern Territory
- Darwin Dam (Tasmania)
- Division of Darwin (1903-1955), a former Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania
- Darwin Glass, an impact glass found near Mount Darwin, Tasmania
- Darwin Crater, a probable impact crater in Tasmania
- Mount Darwin (Tasmania)
In Europe:
- Darwin College, Cambridge, a college of the University of Cambridge
- Darwin College, Kent, a college of the University of Kent
- Darwin Shopping Centre, Shrewsbury, a shopping centre named for Charles Darwin
In North America:
In South America:
- Darwin, Falkland Islands
- Darwin Sound, expanse of sea near Mount Darwin
- Mount Darwin (Andes)
[edit] Science and Technology
- Darwin (ESA), a multiple-satellite project planned by the European Space Agency
- Darwin Information Typing Architecture, an XML standard
- Darwin Medal, given by the Royal Society for achievements in biology
- Darwin (programming game), a programming game developed in the 1960s
- Darwin Streaming Server
- Darwin (lunar crater)
- Darwin (unit), a unit of evolution
- Darwin's finches, a group of related birds from the Galápagos Islands
- Darwin's Frog, a frog from South America
- Darwin's Rhea, a species of Rhea, a flightless bird from South America
- RRS Charles Darwin, used for scientific research in Britain
- Darwin (operating system), a Unix-like operating system released by Apple Inc.
- XDarwin, a port of the X Window System to run on the Mac OS X and Darwin operating systems.
- Data Analysis and Retrieval With Indexed Nucleotide sequences
- "A general purpose programming language containing many built-in routines and data structures (tools from which tools can be built) tailored to the wants and needs of the bioinformatics community". [1]
[edit] Events
- Darwin Rebellion, trade union unrest that took place in Darwin between 1911 and 1919, culminating on 17 December 1918.
[edit] Sport
- Darwin Baseball League, a baseball league in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
- Darwin Rugby League, a Rugby League competition in Darwin, Northern Territory
[edit] Business
- Darwin Airline, an airline based in Lugano, Switzerland
[edit] Entertainment
- Darwin 4078, an arcade game released by Data East in 1986.
[edit] See also
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