Biology
Humboldt Namesakes Galore: Natural Historian Who Influenced Darwin, Thoreau
Humboldt County, California isn't just about cannibis, and Humboldt Glacier (too) has a really serious namesake who (in the early 1800s) originated the ideas we have now about nature. A new book is about this natural historian, scientist and world explorer who influenced Darwin, Thoreau, Emerson, Goethe and people in nations around the world.
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