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, 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:

• Darwin Glacier (Antarctica)
• Darwin Mountains

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:

• Darwin, California
• Darwin, Minnesota
• Darwin, Ohio
• Mount Darwin (California)

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

• Darwin (crater)
• Darwinia

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