Darwin

Definitions

1. A unit of evolutionary change in evolutionary biology.
2. A surname, especially referring to Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist and founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
3. A municipality of Río Negro province, Argentina.
4. The capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.
5. A ghost town in Tasmania, Australia.
6. A settlement on the peninsula of Lafonia, East Falkland island, Falkland Islands.
7. A number of places in the United States:
8. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
9. A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
10. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Clark County, Illinois.
11. A township and minor city in Meeker County, Minnesota.
12. A small unincorporated community in Bedford Township, Meigs County, Ohio.
13. An unincorporated community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.
14. A ghost town in Webb County, Texas.
15. An unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia.
16. A male given name transferred from the surname, deriving from the Old English name Dēorwine and revived through the surname.
17. Ellipsis of Darwin College, Cambridge.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
18. An open-source Unix operating system first released by Apple.

Equivalents

Examples

“One darwin (d) equals the rate of evolution that would produce⟳ a change⟳ in size by a factor of approximately 2.7 in one million years.”

“The rate of evolutionary change⟳ in a species' wing or leg or beak (remember⟳ Darwin's finches mentioned in Chapter 1?) is assessed in degree-of-physical-change units called darwins.”

“For instance, gradual change⟳ is relatively common in vertebrates (about .08 darwins), though some rapidly evolving vertebrates lineages show⟳ rates as high as 10 darwins, over short periods.”

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