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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. Recapitulation theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism—often expressed using Ernst Haeckel's phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"—is a historical hypothesis that the development of the embryo of an animal, from fertilization to gestation or hatching (), goes through stages resembling or representing successive adult stages in the evolution of the ...

  4. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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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.

  5. Portal:Ecology/Selected biographies/1 - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist and philosopher.He promoted Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the theory that the organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.

  6. Tree of life (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) constructed several trees of life. His first sketch, in the 1860s, shows " Pithecanthropus alalus " as the ancestor of Homo sapiens . [ 19 ] His 1866 tree of life from Generelle Morphologie der Organismen shows three kingdoms: Plantae, Protista and Animalia.

  7. Pithecometra principle - Wikipedia

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    Another of Darwin's colleagues was Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (18341919). [1] Haeckel agreed with Huxley on several aspects of the pithecometra thesis. However, Haeckel frequently lectured on the Asian origin of the "missing link" between apes and humans. [1] Consequently, Eugene Dubois, a student of Haeckel's

  8. Embryo drawing - Wikipedia

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    Romanes' 1892 copy of Ernst Haeckel's allegedly fraudulent embryo drawings (This version of the figure is often attributed incorrectly to Haeckel.) [1]. Haeckel's illustrations show vertebrate embryos at different stages of development, which exhibit embryonic resemblance as support for evolution, recapitulation as evidence of the Biogenetic Law, and phenotypic divergence as evidence of von ...

  9. History of ecology - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel: 1834–1919: Invented the term ecology, popularized research links between ecology and evolution Victor Hensen: 1835–1924: Invented term plankton, developed quantitative and statistical measures of productivity in the seas Eugenius Warming: 1841–1924: Early founder of Ecological Plant Geography [6] Ellen Swallow Richards ...