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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.
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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 .
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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 .
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 ...
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