List of things named after Charles Darwin

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

Places

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
Darwinsaurus, a dinosaur
Darwinhydrus, a diving beetle
darwini (multiple species)
darwinii (multiple species)
Minervarya charlesdarwini, a frog
Ramalina darwiniana, lichen

Philosophies

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

References

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