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 School
  • Charles Darwin University
  • Darwin College, Cambridge
  • Darwin, Falkland Islands
  • Darwin, Northern Territory
  • Darwin Glacier (California)
  • Darwin Guyot, a seamount in the Pacific Ocean
  • Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands
  • Darwin Island (Antarctica)
  • Darwin Nature Reserve
  • Darwin Sound (Canada)
  • Darwin's Arch
  • Mount Darwin (Antarctica)
  • Mount Darwin (California)
  • Mount Darwin (Tasmania)
  • Mount Darwin (Zimbabwe)

Things named after Darwin in relation to his Beagle voyage

  • Cordillera Darwin
  • Darwin's finches
  • Darwin's frog
  • Darwin's rhea
  • 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
  • Darwinsaurus, a dinosaur
  • Darwinhydrus, a diving beetle
  • darwini (multiple species)
  • darwinii (multiple species)
  • Minervarya charlesdarwini, a frog
  • Ramalina darwiniana, lichen
  • Bodianus darwini, a fish of the wrasse family.

Philosophies

  • Darwinism
  • Social Darwinism

Other

  • Darwin, a unit of evolutionary change
  • Darwin, an operating system
  • Darwin (ESA) (a proposed satellite system)
  • Darwin Awards
  • Darwin Medal
  • Darwin Prize
  • Darwin fish
  • Division of Darwin, a former electoral division in Australia
  • 1991 Darwin, a stony Florian asteroid
  • Darwin (lunar crater) a lunar crater
  • Darwin (Martian crater) a Martian crater
  • Darwinia (plant), species named not after Charles Darwin but his grandfather Erasmus Darwin
  • Darwin's tubercle, a congenital ear condition which often presents as a thickening on the helix

See also

  • Commemoration of Charles Darwin
  • Darwin (disambiguation)
  • List of organisms named after famous people

References