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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 first half of the book explores Ernst Haeckel's biogenetic law (recapitulation)—the discredited idea that embryonic developmental stages replay the evolutionary transitions of adult forms of an organism's past descendants—and how this idea influenced thinking in biology, theology, and psychology.
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 .
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 ...
Daniel E. Gasman (1933 – 19 December 2012) [1] was an American historian at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York. [2] He earned his PhD from University of Chicago in modern intellectual history. [2]
Haeckel divided human beings into ten races, of which the Caucasian was the highest and the primitives were doomed to extinction. [80] Haeckel was also an advocate of the out of Asia theory by writing that the origin of humanity was to be found in Asia; he believed that Hindustan (South Asia) was the actual location where the first humans had ...
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Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory was not Darwinism, but rather attempted to combine the ideas of Goethe, Lamarck and Darwin. It was adopted by emerging social sciences to support the concept that non-European societies were "primitive", in an early stage of development towards the European ideal, but since then it has been heavily refuted ...