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title: "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 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


== 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 ==