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, named after Charles Darwin
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), Charles 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
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

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In Australia:

Charles Darwin University, university in Darwin, 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

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In North America:

In South America:

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 in the discovery channel special "alien planet"
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
Darwin's Dilemma, a computer game released in 1990

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]

Darwin Baseball League, a baseball league in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
Darwin Rugby League, a Rugby League competition in Darwin, Northern Territory