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Encyclopedia > Darwin

Darwin most commonly refers to:

Darwin may also refer to: For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ... Darwin is the capital city of the Australian Territory of the Northern Territory. ... Hexley, the mascot of Darwin Darwin is a free, open source, Unix-like operating system first released by Apple Computer in 2000. ...

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People

  • The Darwin — Wedgwood family:
    • Charles Darwin (1809–1882), renowned biologist
    • Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962), George Darwin's son, 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

The Darwin — Wedgwood family was a prominent English family, descended from Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, the most notable member of which was Charles Darwin. ... For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ... Sir Charles Galton Darwin. ... Stone-cast bust of Erasmus Darwin, by W. J. Coffee, c 1795 Erasmus Darwin (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802), was an English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet. ... George Howard Darwin Sir George Howard Darwin, F.R.S. (July 9, 1845 – December 7, 1912) was a British astronomer and mathematician, the second son and fifth child of Charles and Emma Darwin. ... Leonard Darwin Leonard as a boy with his mother, Emma Darwin Major Leonard Darwin (15 January 1850 — 26 March 1943), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was variously a soldier, politician, economist, eugenicist and mentor of the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald Fisher. ... Michael G. Darwin (Mike Darwin) was the President of the cryonics organization Alcor Life Extension Foundation from 1983 to 1988, and Research Director until 1992. ...

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In Antarctica:

In Australia: Darwin Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau eastward between the Darwin and Cook Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf. ... The Darwin Mountains (79º51´S 156º15´E) is a group of mountains between the Darwin and Hatherton glaciers. ...

In Europe: Charles Darwin University Charles Darwin University (CDU) is located in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. ... Darwin is the capital city of the Australian Territory of the Northern Territory. ... Darwin Dam Location: 42° 13 S 145° 37 E One of two dams that contain Lake Burbury, West Coast, Tasmania. ... Darwin Glass is a natural glass found to the east of Mount Darwin in the area known as the Darwin Meteorite impact crater in West Coast Tasmania just east of the West Coast Range. ... Mount Darwin, Tasmania Is a mountain in the West Coast Range, Tasmania. ...

In North America: Full name Darwin College Motto - Named after The Darwin Family Previous names - Established 1964 Sister College(s) Wolfson College Master Prof. ...

In South America: Darwin is a census-designated place located in Inyo County, California. ... Darwin is a city located in Meeker County, Minnesota. ... Darwin, Ohio, is a small village between Athens and Pomeroy, Ohio, in the United States. ... Mount Darwin is a flat-topped mountain, named for evolution-theorist Charles Darwin, in the Sierra Nevada range in Fresno County, California that is a popular climb. ...

Darwin is a settlement on East Falkland, lying on Choisel Sound, on the east side of the islands central isthmus. ... The Darwin Sound forms a westward continuation of the Beagle Channel and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Londonderry Island and Stewart Island, not far from the southern tip of South America. ... Mount Darwin, the highest peak in Tierra del Fuego at 8,163 feet (2,488m), forms part of the Cordillera of the Andes, South America, just to the north of the Beagle Channel. ...

Popular Culture

The Wild Thornberrys was an American animated television series that aired from September 1, 1998 until June 11, 2004 on Nickelodeon. ... Darwin! is the second album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. ... The Darwin Awards website logo A Darwin Award is a tongue-in-cheek honor named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, given to people who supposedly improve the human gene pool by accidentally killing or sterilizing themselves during a foolish or careless mistake. ... Darwin (Armando Muñoz) is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... A Darwin fish is an ichthys with stylized legs The Darwin fish is a parody of the ichthys, the Jesus fish. It is an ichthys that has evolved legs (and optionally, has the word Darwin written inside). ... The ichthys or fish symbol represents Christianity Ichthys (Greek: ; also transliterated and latinized as ichthys, icthus, ichthus or ikhthus; ichthus, spelled: Iota Chi Theta Upsilon Sigma), is the Ancient and Classical Greek word for fish. ... Expedition book cover Darwin IV is a fictional planet that was the subject of Wayne Barlowes book Expedition and the television special, Alien Planet, based on Expedition. ... The Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter (DRO) is a fictional spacecraft shown on the Discovery Channel special Alien Planet. ... Darwins Nightmare film poster Darwins Nightmare is a 2004 film written and directed by Hubert Sauper. ... Holby City is a medical drama television serial broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... This section has been identified as trivia. ... Never Let You Go (single) Blue is Third Eye Blinds second album, released in 1999. ...

Science and Technology


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What is Darwinism? (1288 words)
One particulary cogent reason why Darwinism cannot be a single monolithic theory is that organic evolution consists of two essentially independent processes, as we have seen: transformation in time, and diversification in ecological and geographical space.
Darwin did not claim that evolutionary change is slow and continuous -- only that it does not proceed by "jumps" in a single generation (what Mayr calls "saltational" change).
Darwinism is not a simple theory that is either true or false but is rather a highly complex research program that is being continuously modified and improved.
Social Darwinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2922 words)
While Social Darwinism applies the concept of evolution and natural selection to human cultural systems, the extent to which the ideologies related to it are a part of Darwin's biological theory of evolution or Spencer's classical liberal philosophy is arguable.
Darwin's unique discussion of evolution was distinct in several ways from these previous works: Darwin argued that humans were shaped by biological laws in the same way as other animals, particularly by the pressure put on individuals by population growth, emphasizing the natural over the supernatural in human development.
Darwin's theory does not equal progress, except in the sense that the new, evolved species will be better suited to their changing environment.
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