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 ...

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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 ...

As he points out, Haeckel's career belongs to the heroic stage of the history of the theory of evolution ; certainly few men have been subjected to greater obloquy for promulgating that or any ...

THE career of Prof. Ernst Heiririch Haeckel, the centenary of whose birth falls on February 16, belongs to the heroic stage of the history of the theory of evolution. In 1862, at the early age of ...