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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. Dysteleology - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) invented and popularized the term dysteleology [1] (German: Dysteleologie [2]). See also. Adevism; Argument from poor design; Epistemology;

  5. History of anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel (18341919) ... characteristics of the body can be translated into ... population's simply copying the technology and learning the language.

  6. Materialism controversy - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel, the most famous proponent of a "monistic worldview", shared the materialists' rejection of dualism, idealism, and the concept of an immortal soul. Monism, on the other hand ... recognises only one single substance in the universe, which is God and nature at the same time; body and spirit (or matter and energy) are inseparable for ...

  7. Portal:Ecology/Selected biographies - 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 .

  8. Scientific racism - Wikipedia

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    Like most of Darwin's supporters, [citation needed] Ernst Haeckel (18341919) put forward a doctrine of evolutionary polygenism based on the ideas of the linguist and polygenist August Schleicher, in which several different language groups had arisen separately from speechless prehuman Urmenschen (German for 'original humans'), which ...

  9. 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