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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. Proteus (2004 film) - Wikipedia

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    Proteus is an animated documentary film written and directed by David Lebrun in 2004. [1] It depicts a 19th-century understanding of the sea by interweaving the life and work of German biologist and researcher Ernst Haeckel with excerpts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and the story of the oceanographic Challenger expedition of the 1870s.

  5. Portal:Environment/Selected biography/3 - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel (February 16, 1834 — August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel was a prominent German biologist and naturalist.He named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, phylogeny, ecology and the kingdom Protista.

  6. Portal:Ecology/Selected biographies/1 - 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.

  7. 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

  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. History of ecology - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel: 18341919: 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 ...