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Ernst Haeckel – Evolution's controversial artist. A slide-show essay; Kunstformen der Natur (from biolib.de) Kunstformen der Natur (Digitization from Phaidra) PNG alpha-transparencies of Haeckel's "Kustformen der natur" Proteus – Animated documentary film on Haeckel's life and work; Ernst Haeckel Haus and Museum in Jena; Schmidt, H. (1934).
The materialism controversy (German: Materialismusstreit) was a debate in the mid-19th century regarding the implications for current worldviews of the natural sciences. In the 1840s, a new type of materialism was developed, influenced by the methodological advancements in biology and the decline of idealistic philosophy .
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 ...
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 ...
George Romanes' 1892 copy of Ernst Haeckel's embryo drawings, often attributed incorrectly to Haeckel [97] Critics of evolution commonly appeal to past scientific hoaxes such as the Piltdown Man forgery. It is argued that because scientists have been mistaken and deceived in the past about evidence for various aspects of evolution, the current ...
The stem cell controversy concerns the ethics of research involving the ... beginning in 1868 when Ernst Haeckel first used the phrase to describe the fertilized egg ...
6 Controversial image. 1 comment. 7 Embryos. 1 comment. 8 Concerning "Politics" 1 comment. 9 ...
[1] [2] [3] With this statement, the Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena explicitly distances itself from its 20th century predecessors, especially from the controversial scholar and evolutionary biologist Ernst Haeckel, who was closely associated with the University of Jena and whose ideas of ...