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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 .
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 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 ...
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 stem cell controversy concerns the ethics of research involving the ... beginning in 1868 when Ernst Haeckel first used the phrase to describe the fertilized egg ...
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 ...
Richard Dreyfuss' controversial remarks at a "Jaws" screening in Massachusetts on Saturday have prompted the venue that hosted the event to apologize about the Oscar winner's "distressing and ...
Haeckel and other German scientists would take the lead in launching an ambitious programme to reconstruct the evolutionary history of life based on morphology and embryology. [ 103 ] Darwin's theory succeeded in profoundly altering scientific opinion regarding the development of life and in producing a small philosophical revolution. [ 104 ]