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

Ernst Haeckel, a biologist, artist, and philosopher born in Prussia in the 1830s, played a key role in spreading Darwinism in Germany. He was also deeply fascinated by embryology and illustrated some ...

MANY scientists will have read with keen interest Prof. MacBride's delightful sketch of Haeckel's work in NATURE of February 10. As he points out, Haeckel's career belongs to the heroic stage of ...