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Darwinia is a 2005 real-time tactics and real-time strategy video game for several platforms. It is the second game developed by Introversion Software, and its setting is within a computer environment that simulates artificial intelligence.
Darwinia may refer to:
- Darwinia (plant), a genus of Myrtaceae found only in Australia
- Darwinia (video game), a 2005 video game by Introversion Software
- Darwinia (novel), a 1998 novel by Robert Charles Wilson
Darwinia ( syn. Genetyllis DC.) is a genus of about 70 species of evergreen shrubs in the family Myrtaceae, endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia. The majority are native to southern Western Australia, but a few species occur in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. The genus was named in honour of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin by Edward Rudge in 1815. They are commonly known as Mountain Bells or simply Bells. The species of Darwinia grow to between 20–300 cm high, with many of the smaller species being prostrate. The leaves are opposite in decussate pairs (alternate in some species), simple, small, needle-like to oval, 4–20 mm long and 2–10 mm broad, mostly hard with a leathery texture. The flowers are grouped singly or several together, perfect, 2–30 mm long, with five red, white or greenish petals and ten stamens.
They are difficult to propagate from seed but can be cultivated from cuttings.
Many species in the genus Darwinia are threatened with extinction, being listed as Endangered or Vulnerable on the Australian National List of Threatened Flora. Land clearing and grazing practices have reduced the areas where Darwinia species grow naturally. Recovery is hindered by drought, changed fire regimes and susceptibility to infection by the oomycete Phytophthora cinnamomi which kills the plants.
Natural hybrids are known among darwinias, for example between D. fascicularis and D. glaucophylla where these species occur together.
The species Verticordia verticordina was placed in this genus by George Bentham, but transferred to the current arrangement in 1991.
Darwinia is a 1998 science fiction, alternate history novel written by Robert Charles Wilson. It won a Prix Aurora Award (Canadian science fiction and fantasy) for Best Long Form in 1999, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel that same year.
Darwinia was written in segments, in Vancouver, Whitehorse (Yukon), and Toronto.