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Joseph Hooker

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Noun1.Joseph Hooker - United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)Joseph Hooker - United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)
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Darwin's friend Sir Joseph Hooker, a botanist and explorer who became Director of Kew Gardens, asked Darwin to explain how it was that plants found on the southern tip of South America also grew many miles away on a remote island in the Indian Ocean.
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Darwin could have learned about Tibetan Buddhism from letters written to him by his friend Joseph Hooker, who spent time in Tibet studying the local flora.
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Inside, the curators explain how he sat on his theory of evolution for fear of its social consequences with the help of a letter he wrote to his friend, Joseph Hooker.
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