Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist and explorer who was one of Darwin’s good friends. He’s credited in the book with encouraging Darwin to publish The Origin of Species. Hooker was one of Darwin’s earliest and most public supporters, and his work studying plants from around the world helped Darwin form some of his theories.
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Introduction
Two of Darwin’s most important supporters were Sir Charles Lyell and Dr. Hooker. Darwin wrote that he also received assistance from other naturalists who were too numerous to...
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