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
- 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:
People
- The Darwin — Wedgwood family:
- Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), Charles Darwin's grandson, golf writer
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882), renowned biologist
- Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962), George Darwin's grandson, mathematician, physicist and eugenicist
- Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), Charles' grandfather, himself a naturalist and doctor with early published ideas about evolution
Robert Darwin (1766–1848), Charles' father- George Darwin (1845–1912), Charles Darwin's son, astronomer and mathematician
- Leonard Darwin (1850–1943), Charles Darwin's son, economist, eugenicist, and politician
- Mike Darwin (1955–), cryonics pioneer, writer, and scientific researcher
Places
In Antarctica:
In Australia:
- Charles Darwin University, university in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
- Darwin, Northern Territory, capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia
- Darwin International Airport, located in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
- Darwin Dam (Tasmania)
- Division of Darwin (1903-1955), a former Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania
- Mount Darwin (Tasmania)
- Darwin Glass, an impact glass found near Mount Darwin, Tasmania
- Darwin Crater, a probable impact crater in 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)
Popular Culture
- Darwin, a character in the cartoon The Wild Thornberrys
- Darwin!, an album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
- Darwin Awards
- Darwin, a character in the Marvel Universe
- Darwin fish, a symbol of evolution parodying the ichthys symbol
- 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
- Darwin's Nightmare, a 2004 documentary film directed by Hubert Sauper
- Darwin ward, a cardiac ward in medical drama Holby City
- Darwin, a song by alternative rock band Third Eye Blind, from their second album entitled Blue
- Darwin, the name of the dolphin in seaQuest DSV
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 (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]
Sport
- Darwin Baseball League, a baseball league in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
Business
- Darwin Airline, an airline based in Lugano, Switzerland
See Also
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