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4 days ago · Haeckel and other German scientists would take the lead in launching an ambitious programme to reconstruct the evolutionary history of life based on morphology and embryology. [95] Darwin's theory succeeded in profoundly altering scientific opinion regarding the development of life and in producing a small philosophical revolution. [96]
2 days ago · Selections from Ernst Haeckel's 1904 Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), showing pennate (left) and centric (right) frustules. Diatoms are divided into two groups that are distinguished by the shape of the frustule: the centric diatoms and the pennate diatoms. Pennate diatoms are bilaterally symmetric.
May 2, 2024 · The word ecology was coined by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, who applied the term oekologie to the “relation of the animal both to its organic as well as its inorganic environment.”. The word comes from the Greek oikos, meaning “household,” “home,” or “place to live.”. Thus, ecology deals with the organism and its environment.
1 day ago · Homo tautavelensis. Homo erectus ( / ˌhoʊmoʊ əˈrɛktəs /; meaning " upright man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago. [2] Its specimens are among the first recognizable members of the genus Homo.
May 12, 2024 · Ernst Haeckel was born on February 16, 1834. Haeckel was a zoologist, an accomplished artist and illustrator, and later a professor of comparative anatomy. Although Haeckel’s ideas are important to the history of evolutionary theory, and although he was a competent invertebrate anatomist most famous for his work on radiolaria, many ...
May 15, 2024 · Six years later German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (having dropped the mineral kingdom) proposed a third kingdom, the Protista, to embrace microorganisms. In the late 1930s American botanist Herbert F. Copeland proposed a separate kingdom for the bacteria (kingdom Monera), based on their unique absence of a clearly defined nucleus.
6 days ago · The first Neanderthal skeleton was found in Germany in 1856, as German zoologist Ernst Haeckel went so far as to give him the name Homo Stupidus. Thankfully, the name didn't stick. Homo Heidelbergensis
