Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

* Creation ( 2009 film ), a 2009 film by Jon Amiel about the life of Charles Darwin

* Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection

** Anne Darwin ( 1841 – 1851 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Bernard Darwin ( 1876 – 1961 ), golf writer

** Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer

** Charles Galton Darwin ( 1887 – 1962 ), physicist and activist

** Charles Waring Darwin ( 1856 – 1858 ), youngest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Edward Levett Darwin ( 1821 – 1901 ), solicitor and author

** Elizabeth Darwin ( 1847 – 1926 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Emma Darwin née Wedgwood ( 1808 – 1896 ), wife of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ), physician and biologist, grandfather of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Erasmus Alvey Darwin ( 1804 – 1881 ), brother of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Etty Darwin ( 1843 – 1929 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Francis Darwin ( 1848 – 1925 ), botanist

** Francis Sacheverel Darwin ( 1786 – 1859 ), physician and traveler

** George Darwin ( 1845 – 1912 ), astronomer and mathematician

** Gwen Raverat née Gwendoline Mary Darwin ( 1885 – 1957 ), artist

The Darwin Awards site does try to verify all submitted stories, but many similar sites, and the vast number of circulating " Darwin awards " emails, are largely fictional.

Sympathetic fictional portraits of Elizabeth Woodville can be found in Jan Westcott's The White Rose and in A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin ( novelist ).

Among the burnt books are " On the Origin of Species " by Charles Darwin, " A Brief History of Time ", by Stephen Hawking, and a fictional book entitled " Logic for First Graders ".

* Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter, a fictional spacecraft.

The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges.

* Charles Darwin Middle School, a fictional school for animals in My Gym Partner's a Monkey

* Darwin College is a fictional college in the film Horse Feathers

In addition, there are the teams, Darwin, Canberra and Hobart, who were fictional teams.

Alien Planet is a 94-minute docufiction, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV.

Commentary from notable people discussing the details behind the fictional world of Darwin IV and the likelihood of extraterrestrial life in general is interspersed throughout the movie.

Darwin IV is a fictional planet that was the subject of Wayne Barlowe's book Expedition and the television special, Alien Planet, based on Expedition.

The episode features cultural references to films such as Westworld, Last Action Hero, and Free Willy, and the fictional characters Huckleberry Finn, Eddie, and Darwin.

He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch, and a short biography of Darwin.

He complained to the trustees of the museum but it was dismissed with several character references in favour of Gray including Charles Darwin.

APE's chief Darwin gave Link and Hairi their orders as part of his " theory ," a play on the Charles Darwin ( after whom the character had been named ) scientific theory of evolution.

Based on the work of his cousin Galton, Darwin is able to assert that human character traits and mental characteristics are inherited the same as physical characteristics, and argues against the mind / body distinction for the purposes of evolutionary theory.

Darwin decided to leave a posthumous memoir for his family, and on Sunday 28 May 1876 he began Recollections of the Development of my mind and character.

Notwithstanding Darwin's insistence on his ignorance of Matthew's work, Ronald W. Clark, a biographer of Darwin, commented that " Only the transparent honesty of Darwin's character ... makes it possible to believe that by the 1850s he had no recollection of Matthew's work ".

Animal rights is a theme that has appeared in her writing ; for example, the character Darwin in Luv is a member of an animal rights group.

Darwin is also the character who joins the most ; he accompanies Rooks in three chapters while the others only are playable in two.

" The collection introduces the semi-autobiographical character " Faith Darwin " ( in " The Used-Boy Raisers " and " A Subject of Childhood "), who later appears in six stories of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and ten of Later the Same Day.

In mid-July 1837 Darwin began a notebook on " transmutation of Species ", his " B " notebook, having been " greatly struck from about month of previous March on character of S. American fossils — & species on Galapagos Archipelago.

He then passed on the gossip that Miss Martineau had been " as frisky lately the Rhinoceros .— Erasmus has been with her noon, morning, and night :— if her character was not as secure, as a mountain in the polar regions she certainly would loose it .— Lyell called there the other day & there was a beautiful rose on the table, & she coolly showed it to him & said “ Erasmus Darwin ” gave me that .— How fortunate it is, she is so very plain ; otherwise I should be frightened: She is a wonderful woman ".

Darwin decided to leave a posthumous memoir for his family, and on Sunday 28 May 1876 he began Recollections of the Development of my mind and character.

He says that tonight on the science fiction series seaQuest DSV, Eddie, pet dog of Martin Crane on Frasier, will ride Darwin, the talking dolphin character from seaQuest DSV.

He then passed on the gossip that Miss Martineau had been " as frisky lately the Rhinoceros .— Erasmus has been with her noon, morning, and night :— if her character was not as secure, as a mountain in the polar regions she certainly would loose it .— Lyell called there the other day & there was a beautiful rose on the table, & she coolly showed it to him & said “ Erasmus Darwin ” gave me that .— How fortunate it is, she is so very plain ; otherwise I should be frightened: She is a wonderful woman ".