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Darwin Port in n Australia, on the Beagle Gulf, an inlet of the Timor Sea; capital of Northern Territory. Founded in the late 1860s as Palmerston, it became Port Darwin in 1911. The Allied headquarters in n Australia during World War II, it was bombed by the Japanese in 1942. In 1974 most of the city was destroyed by a cyclone. Darwin's harbour is the major shipping point for the sparsely populated and relatively undeveloped n region of Australia. Pop. (1999 est.) 88,100.

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darwin A measure of evolutionary rate (introduced by J. B. S. Haldane in 1949), given in units of change per unit time. See also HALDANE.

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darwin A measure of evolutionary rate (introduced by J. B. S. Haldane in 1948), given in exponential units of change over time, such that 1 darwin = 1/1000 of the genome changed per 1000 years.

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darwin A measure of evolutionary rate (introduced by J. B. S. Haldane in 1949), given in units of change per unit time.

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darwin A measure of evolutionary rate, given in units of change per unit time.

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