darwin
See also: Darwin
English
Etymology
Named after Charles Darwin, coined by J.B.S. Haldane in 1949.
Noun
darwin (plural darwins)
- A unit of evolutionary change in evolutionary biology.
- 1999, J. William Schopf, Evolution!: Facts and Fallacies, page 50:
- 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.
- 2003, Donald Mitchell, The 2,000 Percent Solution, page 243:
- 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.
- 2010, Sahotra Sarkar, Anya Plutynski, A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology (page 177)
- 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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Derived terms
- d (abbreviation)
Related terms
- Darwin
See also
Darwin (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- draw in, drawin', indraw, inward