The Soul of Geography: Bojie Fu’s vision for science and humanity

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Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing

During the preparation of this work the author used ChatGPT in order to sharpen and refine parts of the text. After using this, the author reviewed and edited the content as needed and takes full responsibility for the content of the published article.

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Michael E Meadows: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing.

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The author declare that he has no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Michael E. Meadows is an Editorial Board Member for this journal and was not involved in the editorial review or the decision to publish this article.

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