Charles Robert British naturalist (1809-1882) who proposed the theory of evolution based on natural selection (1859). His theory about the development of new species revolutionised the study of biology.
The English naturalist (1809-92) who developed modern ideas about evolution. His countryman, Alfred Russel Wallace, came up with similar ideas at about the same time, but Darwin is the better remembered.
as in 'a darwin'. An eponymous unit of evolutionary change just as a newton is a measure of force, ampere a measure of electrical current and Kelvin a measure of temperature. According to J.B.S. Haldane, one darwin equals a rate of change (for examplein size) of 0.1% per thousand years. Slow chnage would be measured in 'millidarwins', rapid change in 'kilodarwins'. Actually, the darwin has not been much used in the literature to express rates of evolution.
Darwin was a programming game invented in August 1961 by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and M. Douglas Mc Ilroy.
The darwin (d) is a unit of evolutionary change, defined by J. B. S. Haldane in 1949.