To Darwin, the embryonic resemblances were strong support for the theory of evolution. One of Darwin's contemporaries, German biologist Ernst Haeckel, summed up the argument in a famous ...

After completing his studies in medicine and biology, a restless Ernst Haeckel set off for Italy in 1859 to study ... of Charles Darwin’s treatise was a drawing that illustrated the evolution of a ...

After completing his studies in medicine and biology, Prussian naturalist Ernst Haeckel set off for Italy in 1859, where, in addition to painting landscapes, he spent the climactic months of his stay ...