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 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
- Scientific names of organisms
Some 250 species and several higher groups bear Darwin's name; most are insects.[1][2]
- 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
- 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