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Ernst Haeckel, (born Feb. 16, 1834, Potsdam, Prussia—died Aug. 9, 1919, Jena, Ger.), German zoologist and evolutionist. After receiving a degree in medicine in 1857, he obtained a doctorate in zoology from the University of Jena, and from 1862 to 1909 he taught zoology at Jena.
The evolutionary study of embryos reached a peak in the late 1800s thanks primarily to the efforts of one extraordinarily gifted, though not entirely honest, scientist named Ernst Haeckel (left). Haeckel was a champion of Darwin, but he also embraced the pre-Darwinian notion that life formed a series of successively higher forms, with embryos ...
Nov 17, 2020 · German biologist and naturalist Ernst Haeckel created detailed scientific illustrations of the world's flora and fauna that helped advocate for Darwinism. His illustrations are remembered to this day as the pinnacle of scientific drawings of the natural world, but he had no formal training in art.
May 3, 2014 · The biogenetic law is a theory of development and evolution proposed by Ernst Haeckel in Germany in the 1860s. It is one of several recapitulation theories, which posit that the stages of development for an animal embryo are the same as other animals' adult stages or forms.
Feb 24, 2019 · The German biologist and artist Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834–1919) (Fig. 1) was a key figure during the early years of the “First Darwinian revolution”, a time period when the foundation for the development of our modern evolutionary view of the biosphere was laid.
1834-1919. German Embryologist. E rnst Haeckel was among the first German biologists to adopt Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He popularized evolutionary thought on the European continent and added many novel concepts to biology and the social sciences.
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, artist, philosopher, and marine biologist, amongst other pursuits. His most famous research centered on the anatomy of radiolaria - microscopic protozoa with complex mineral shells - which, with other work, culminated in the beautifully ...
