The Evolution of Man: Volume 2

By Haeckel, Ernst

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Title:	The Evolution of Man: Volume 2
Author:	Haeckel, Ernst
Volume:	Volume 2
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Architecture, Drama
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Description: Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German: [ˈhɛkəl]; February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919[1]) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory (ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny) claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny. The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures (see: Kunstformen der Natur, Art Forms of Nature). As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträtsel (1895–1899, in English, The Riddle of the Universe, 1901), the genesis for the term world riddle (Welträtsel); and Freedom in Science and Teaching[2] to support teaching evolution.