The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's prints, which even in their day, became world ...
Greatly influenced by Charles Darwin, the famed German zoologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) boldly defended the fact of organic evolution and seriously considered its far-reaching ramifications for science, philosophy, and theology. Advocating the interplay of empirical evidence and rational speculation, "The Riddle of the Universe" ...
There are many difficulties in the way of understanding this partial segmentation and the gastrula that arises from it. We have only recently succeeded, by means of comparative research, in overcoming these difficulties, and reducing this cenogenetic form of gastrulation to the original palingenetic type. This is comparatively easy in the small ...
CONTENTS The Controversy about Creation The Struggle over Our Genealogical Tree The Controversy over the Soul Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) received a thorough university education, and in 1862 became Professor of Zoology at Jena. He was the first outspoken Darwinian in Germany. He developed especially the theory that the history of the embryo follows ...
Ernst Haeckel was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, and artist. He named many species, developed a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and is credited with many terms used in biology. Haeckel supported the work of Charles Darwin. His theory of "recapitulation" claimed that al individual organism's biological ...
Contents Prefatory Note by Thomas H. Huxley Preface Development and Creation Certain Proofs of the Doctrine of Descent The Skull Theory and the Ape Theory The Cell-Soul and Cellular Psychology The Genetic and Dogmatic Methods of Teaching The Doctrine of Descent and Social Democracy Ignorabimus et Restringamur Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) received a ...
However, the Amphioxus is important not merely because it fills the deep gulf between the Invertebrates and Vertebrates, but also because it shows us to-day the typical vertebrate in all its simplicity. We owe to it the most important data that we proceed on in reconstructing the gradual historical development of the whole stem. All the Craniota ...
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