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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. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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 ...

  6. Kunstformen der Natur - Wikipedia

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    University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - An Ernst Haeckel exhibition from 2005 pairing prints from Kunstformen der Natur with modern sculptures. Kurt Stüber's Biolib - An online version of Kunstformen der Natur with scanned images of the 100 plates, accompanying descriptions, table of contents and supplemental pages (in ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Tree of life (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel (18341919) 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.

  9. 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 ...