Charles Darwin requested that his friend thebotanist Joseph Hooker tell the great explorer/sci-ence thinker Alexander von Humboldt that the"whole course of my life" was determined by readingHumboldt's remarkable Personal Narrative (1852).Darwin was said to have carried Humboldt's writ-ings everywhere, and he referred to him as "thegreatest scientific traveler who ever lived." Indeed,one can say that Darwin's late-in-life expressions ofthe "network of life" reflected his foundation inHumboldt, arguably our first ecologist per se
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机译：查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin）要求他的朋友植物学家约瑟夫·胡克（Joseph Hooker）告诉伟大的探险家/科学思想家亚历山大·冯·洪堡（Alexander von Humboldt），“我的一生”是通过阅读洪堡的非凡个人叙事（1852）来确定的。到处都是，他称他为“有史以来最伟大的科学旅行家”。确实，可以说达尔文“生命网络”的晚年表达反映了他在洪堡的建立，可以说是我们本身的第一位生态学家
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