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Dar·win

(där′wĭn)

A city of northern Australia on Port Darwin, an inlet of the Timor Sea. Founded as Palmerston in 1869 and renamed in 1911, it is the capital of the Northern Territory.

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Darwin

(ˈdɑːwɪn)

(Placename) a port in N Australia, capital of the Northern Territory: destroyed by a cyclone in 1974 but rebuilt on the same site. Pop: 129 062 (2011). Former name (1869–1911): Palmerston

Darwin

(ˈdɑːwɪn)

1. (Biography) Charles (Robert). 1809–82, English naturalist who formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection, expounded in On the Origin of Species (1859) and applied to man in The Descent of Man (1871)

2. (Biography) his grandfather, Erasmus. 1731–1802, English physician and poet; author of Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life (1794–96), anticipating Lamarck's views on evolution

3. (Biography) Sir George Howard, son of Charles Darwin. 1845–1912, English astronomer and mathematician noted for his work on tidal friction

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Dar•win

(ˈdɑr wɪn)

n.

1. Charles (Robert), 1809–82, English naturalist.

2. his grandfather, Erasmus, 1731–1802, English naturalist and poet.

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Noun	1.	Darwin - English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) Charles Darwin, Charles Robert Darwin
	2.	Darwin - provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia Northern Territory - a territory in north central Australia

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Darwin in his remarks relative to the degeneration of CULTIVATED types of animals through the action of promiscuous breeding, brings Gobineau support from the realm of biology.

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Half an hour later I was seated in the newspaper office with a huge tome in front of me, which had been opened at the article "Weissmann versus Darwin," with the sub heading, "Spirited Protest at Vienna.

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Roger says they have, and he says a man called Darwin proved it.

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And so with Darwin. He took advantage of all that had been learned by the florists and cattle-breeders."

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Absolutely revolutionary for almost all lines if thought was the gradual adoption by almost all thinkers of the theory of Evolution, which, partly formulated by Lamarck early in the century, received definite statement in 1859 in Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species.' The great modification in the externals of religious belief thus brought about was confirmed also by the growth of the science of historical criticism.

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"A development worthy of Darwin!", the lady exclaimed enthusiastically.

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There were scientific works, too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin. Astronomy and physics were represented, and I remarked Bulfinch's Age of Fable, Shaw's History of English and American Literature, and Johnson's Natural History in two large volumes.

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Darwin would call "rudimentary" sleeves; these had "edging" around them, but the bosom was ridiculously plain.

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Darwin." -- The naturalists, however, of this expedition differ with me on some points respecting coral formations.

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They are even to be found in plants, as Sir Francis Darwin pointed out

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It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground, or suspended overhead, connecting by branch wires with private dwellings, shops, etc., and uniting them through the main cable with a central office." This remarkable prophecy has now become stale reading, as stale as Darwin's "Origin of Species," or Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations." But at the time that it was written it was a most fanciful dream.

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But people, unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin, forget that the planets must ultimately fall back one by one into the parent body.