The man was Charles Robert Darwin. The book was "On the Origin of Species".

这个人就是查尔斯·罗伯特·达尔文，而那本书正是《物种起源》。

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Charles Robert Darwin is not only an extremely important thinker in the history of evolution thoughts but also a famous urger before the ecology revolutionary.

查尔斯·罗伯特·达尔文不仅是进化思想史上一位极其重要的人物，而且也是生态学命名以前的伟大倡导者。

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Darwin was born in 1809 to wealthy parents, and as a teenager he was expected to become a doctor like his father, Robert.

达尔文出生于1809年，家庭富裕。青少年时代，家人期望他像他父亲罗伯特一样成为一名医生。

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His father Robert Darwin was a doctor.

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Its members have included Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Steven Hawking.

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