Haeckel
Noun
Meaning
German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919)
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Examples
Although Haeckel stressed comparative embryology and Gegenbaur promoted the comparison of adult structures, both believed that the two methods could work in conjunction to produce the goal of evolutionary morphology.
Although Haeckel is proven right about the allantois, the utilization of Krause’s embryo as justification turns out to be problematic, for the embryo is that of a bird rather than a human.
As a result of his letters and, no doubt, personal conversations, Huxley and Haeckel were convinced that, at the time he wrote Principles, he believed new species had arisen by natural methods.
As Erland Nordenskiöld argues, charges of fraud against Haeckel are unnecessary.
Controversy The exactness of Ernst Haeckel 's drawings of embryos has caused much controversy among Intelligent Design proponents recently and Haeckel's intellectual opponents in the past.
Early classifications of prokaryotes placed these in a handful of genera based on their shape and motility (at that time Ernst Haeckel 's classification of bacteria in the kingdom Monera was in place).