Darwin
Natural selection pioneer
Darwin refers to Charles Darwin (1809–1882), the English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology.
His name appears in countless scientific contexts: Darwinian selection, Darwin's finches.
Darwin is also a city in northern Australia, capital of the Northern Territory.
To receive a Darwin Award is to die through spectacularly foolish behavior, thus removing oneself from the gene pool—dark humor invoking natural selection.
Differential reproductive success
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
mutation · ancestry · lineage · Beagle · finches · descent · extinction · speciation
Australian federal territory
- tropicalOf hot, humid regions
- harborSafe anchorage for ships
- crocodilesLarge aquatic reptiles
- monsoonSeasonal tropical wind pattern
outback · cyclone · wet season · dry season · port · Australia
natural selection
Differential reproductive success
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
fossil · mutation · ancestry · lineage · Beagle · finches · descent · extinction · speciation · phylogeny
Northern Territory
Australian federal territory
- tropicalOf hot, humid regions
- harborSafe anchorage for ships
- crocodilesLarge aquatic reptiles
monsoon · outback · cyclone · wet season · dry season · port · Australia
- biologistsbiologist, geneticist, molecular biologist, microbiologist, biochemist
- scientistsbiologist, Einstein, anthropologist, chemist, archaeologist
- Victorianaseances, Dickens, spiritualism, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology
- 1800sVictorian era, Napoleon, Gilded Age, Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution
- 1800s FiguresMarx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon, Lincoln
- British IconsShakespeare, Churchill, Newton, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria
Darwincreationism
Divine origin doctrine
intelligent design · Genesis · divine creation · creation science · Lamarck
- Darwinian evolutionSpecies change through selection
- Charles Darwin
- darwin's theory
- Darwin AwardPrize for fatal self-removal
- social DarwinismMisapplied natural selection to society
- Darwinian theoryEvolution via natural selection