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, 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 architecture for technical information
- 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
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