The History of Creation: Or, the Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. a Popular Exposition of the Doct

by Ernst Haeckel (creator), Edwin Ray Lankester (Creator)

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The History Of Or, The Development Of The Earth And Its Inhabitants By The Action Of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition Of The Doctrine Of Evolution In General, And Of That Of Darwin, Goethe And Lamarck In Paticular. From The German Of Ernst Haeckel, Volume 2; The History Of Or, The Development Of The Earth And Its Inhabitants By The Action Of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition Of The Doctrine Of Evolution In General, And Of That Of Darwin, Goethe And Lamarck In Paticular. From The German Of Ernst Haeckel; Sir Edwin Ray Lankester

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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester

H.S. King & co., 1876

Science; Life Sciences; Evolution; Evolution; Heredity; Human beings; Science / Life Sciences / Evolution

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1868

About the author

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent 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 to support teaching evolution.