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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).
Unlike his many popular books of essays, it was a technical book, and over the following decades it was influential in stimulating research into heterochrony (changes in the timing of embryonic development), which had been neglected since Ernst Haeckel's theory that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny [a] had been largely
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 ...
Daniel E. Gasman (1933 – 19 December 2012) [1] was an American historian at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York. [2] He earned his PhD from University of Chicago in modern intellectual history. [2]
He initially studied biology, philosophy and psychology at Jena under Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), then continued his education in Munich with Richard Hertwig (1850–1937). In 1909 he obtained his PhD at the University of Jena under Ludwig Plate (1862–1937), where from 1918 until 1933, he worked as an associate professor of zoology. [1]
The dust-up over Advanced Placement Psychology courses in Florida exposes the lie of the parental rights discourse in that state and elsewhere, writes Neil J. Young.
[4] He discusses the influence on Freud of the otolaryngologist Wilhelm Fliess and the biologist Ernst Haeckel. [5] Webster writes that while Ernest Jones wrote The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1953-1957) with the avowed objective of correcting a "mendacious legend" about Freud, Jones replaced that negative with a positive legend. Webster ...