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List of things named after Charles Darwin

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Several places, concepts, institutions, and things are namesakes of the English biologist Charles Darwin:

Places
  • Charles Darwin National Park
  • Charles Darwin Foundation
  • Charles Darwin Research Station
  • Charles Darwin University
  • Darwin College, Cambridge
  • Darwin, Falkland Islands
  • Darwin, Northern Territory
  • Darwin Glacier (California)
  • Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands
  • Darwin Island (Antarctica)
  • Darwin Sound (Canada)
  • Mount Darwin (California)
  • Mount Darwin (Tasmania)
  • Things named after Darwin in relation to his Beagle voyage
  • Cordillera Darwin
  • Darwin's finches
  • Darwin's frog
  • Darwin Sound
  • Mount Darwin (Andes)
  • Scientific names of organisms

    Some 250 species and several higher groups bear Darwin's name; most are insects.

  • Darwinilus, a rove beetle
  • Darwinius, an extinct primate
  • Darwinopterus, a genus of pterosaur
  • Darwinula, a genus of seed shrimp
  • Darwinivelia, a water treader genus
  • Darwinysius, a seed bug
  • Darwinomya, a genus of flies
  • Darwinella, a sponge genus
  • Darwinhydrus, a diving beetle
  • darwini (multiple species)
  • darwinii (multiple species)
  • Ingerana charlesdarwini, a frog
  • Philosophies
  • Darwinism
  • Social Darwinism
  • Other
  • Darwin, an operating system
  • Darwin (ESA) (a proposed satellite system)
  • Darwin Awards
  • Darwin Medal
  • Darwin's Radio, a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Bear
  • Darwin fish
  • Division of Darwin, a former electoral division in Australia
  • The 1863 article "Darwin among the Machines" by Samuel Butler proposed evolving mechanical life
  • References

    List of things named after Charles Darwin Wikipedia