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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.
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) invented and popularized the term dysteleology [1] (German: Dysteleologie [2]). See also. Adevism; Argument from poor design; Epistemology;
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 .
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pithecanthropus is a genus that German biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) had created in 1868. [1] Years later, in the 20th century, the German physician and paleoanthropologist Franz Weidenreich (1873-1948) compared in detail the characters of Dubois' Java Man, then named Pithecanthropus erectus , with the characters of the Peking Man , then ...