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:

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People
Places
Popular Culture
Science and Technology
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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


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 Dam (Tasmania)

Darwin Crater, Tasmania

Darwin Glass, an impact glass found near Mount Darwin, Tasmania

Mount Darwin, Tasmania
In 'Europe':

Darwin College, Cambridge, a college in the University of Cambridge

Darwin College, Kent, a college of the University of Kent
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/peptide 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]

See Also



Darwin (crater)

Darwinia

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