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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. Portal:Ecology/Selected biographies - 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.

  4. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    Ernst Haeckel (18341919) Eugenius Warming (1841–1924) [19] Linnaeus founded an early branch of ecology that he called The Economy of Nature (1772), Haeckel coined the term "ecology" (German: Oekologie, Ökologie) (1866), Warming authored the first book on plant ecology. Plantesamfund (1895). Modern elk management: Olaus Murie (1889–1963 ...

  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:Biology/Previous biographies - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel (18341919) was an eminent German biologist and philosopher who promoted Charles Darwin's work in Germany. Haeckel was a zoologist, an accomplished artist and illustrator, and later a professor of comparative anatomy. He was one of the first to consider psychology as a branch of physiology.

  7. History of anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Haeckel (18341919) ... according to which characteristics of the body can be translated into ... found the same pattern described by Samuel Morton's ...

  8. 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 ...

  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 ...