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English: The pictures illustrate Ernst Haeckel's biogenetic law. In the beginning embryos of different species look remarkable similar, later different characteristics develop. The images initiated controversies and charges of fraud.
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Source Ernst Haeckel: Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1868.
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Ernst Haeckel  (1834–1919)  wikidata:Q48246 s:en:Author:Ernst Haeckel q:en:Ernst Haeckel
 
Ernst Haeckel
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Birth name: Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel; Haeckel; Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
Description German naturalist, philosopher and artist
Date of birth/death 16 February 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 9 August 1919 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Potsdam Edit this at Wikidata Jena Edit this at Wikidata
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