“贝格尔舰上的航行,是我一生当中最最重大的事件,它决定了我的全部研究事业”。——达尔文谁不知道达尔文呢?他的进化论,同哥白尼的日心论、牛顿的万有引力、爱因斯坦的相对论一样,作为人类认识世界的里程碑,是家喻户晓的。但你是否知道,航海对达尔文研究进化论起着何等重大的作用。 “Sailing on Beagle was the single most important event in my life, and it drove all my research.” - Darwin Who did not know Darwin? His theory of evolution, like Copernicus’s heliocentrism, Newton’s gravitation, and Einstein’s theory of relativity, is a well-known example of a human being’s understanding of the world. But do you know how important navigation plays in Darwin’s theory of evolution?