Darwin may refer to:
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection
- Darwin, Northern Territory, a capital city in Australia
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... Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, editor ... Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle, editor ... The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882, editor ...
... unexpurgated version of The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, which had previously had personal and religious material removed by his son, Francis ... She also edited several collections of letters and notes, including correspondence between Darwin and John Stevens Henslow, his mentor ...
... Taylor would be remembered by Charles Darwin as a warning example of an outcast from society who had challenged Christianity and had been imprisoned for ... as he worked towards the publication of Darwin's theory he wrote "What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low horridly cruel works ... develes chapelleyns, that syngen evere placebo." As the reaction to Darwin's theory developed in March 1860 he described his close ally Thomas Huxley as his "good and kind agent ...
... Emma Nora Barlow (née Darwin 22 December 1885 – December 1989), was the granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin ... life she was one of the first Darwinian scholars, and founder of the Darwin Industry of scholarly research into her grandfather's life and discoveries ...
... Public education in the community of Darwin is provided by the Meigs Local School District ... Campuses serving the community include Meigs Primary School (Grades K-2), Meigs Intermediate School (Grades 3-5), Meigs Middle School (Grades 6-8), and Meigs High School (Grades 9-12) ...
Famous quotes containing the word darwin:
“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
“To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs—but a tribute nevertheless.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)