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  2. Ernst Haeckel - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German: [ɛʁnst ˈhɛkl̩]; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) [1] was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.

  3. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific ...

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    Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) Eugenius Warming (1841–1924) [19] Linnaeus founded an early branch of ecology that he called The Economy of Nature (1772), Haeckel coined the term "ecology" (German: Oekologie, Ökologie) (1866), Warming authored the first book on plant ecology. Plantesamfund (1895). Modern elk management: Olaus Murie (1889–1963 ...

  4. History of ecology - Wikipedia

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    This contention may look convincing at first glance inasmuch as On the Origin of Species is full of observations and proposed mechanisms that clearly fit within the boundaries of modern ecology (e.g. the cat-to-clover chain – an ecological cascade) and because the term ecology was coined in 1866 by a strong proponent of Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel.

  5. Rudolf Virchow - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel Edwin Klebs Franz Boas Adolph Kussmaul Max Westenhöfer William Osler: ... His father was a farmer and the city treasurer. Academically brilliant, he ...

  6. History of phagocytosis - Wikipedia

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    The first demonstration of phagocytosis as a property of leukocytes, the immune cells, was from the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. [14] [15] In 1846, English physician Thomas Wharton Jones had discovered that a group of leucocytes, which he called "granule-cell" (later renamed and identified as eosinophil [16]), could change shape, the phenomenon later called amoeboid movement.

  7. Thomas Henry Huxley - Wikipedia

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    His father was a mathematics teacher at Great Ealing School until it closed, ... A letter from Huxley to Ernst Haeckel (2 November 1871) states: "The dogs have been ...

  8. Materialism controversy - Wikipedia

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    The altered political situation is also apparent in the work of Ernst Haeckel, who embraced the concept of a scientific worldview from the materialists but gave it a fresh political orientation. Haeckel, who was 17 years younger than Vogt, established himself as a proponent of Darwinism in Germany during the 1860s.

  9. Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay - Wikipedia

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    His Ukrainian father, Nikolai Ilyich Myklukha, [7] was born in 1818, [7] ... Ernst Haeckel with his assistant, Nicholai Miklouho-Maclay, in the Canary Islands, 1866.