Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel ( February 16 , 1834 - August 8 , 1919 ) was a German biologist and philosopher who popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany . Haeckel was a physician and later a professor of comparative anatomy . He was one o...

Charles Darwin

...unctions in different species. Lying on his sickbed, his rooms became filled with experiments on climbing plants. He was visited by a reverent Ernst haeckel who had spread the gospel of Darwinismus in Germany , and reports came that students at Cambridge were coming over to his ideas. Huxley used his w...

Phylogeny

...r phylogenies include cladistics , phenetics , maximum likelihood, and Bayesian. During the late 19th century , the theory of recapitulation, or haeckel 's biogenetic law, was widely accepted. This theory was often expressed as " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ", i.e. that the development of an orga...

Protist

...e eukaryotes which are neither animals , plants , or fungi . They are usually treated as a kingdom Protista or Protoctista, first introduced by haeckel . The protists are a paraphyletic grade, and aside from a relatively simple organization, there are not many characteristics common to the group. ...

Protist

...e eukaryotes which are neither animals , plants , or fungi . They are usually treated as a kingdom Protista or Protoctista, first introduced by haeckel . The protists are a paraphyletic grade, and aside from a relatively simple organization, there are not many characteristics common to the group. ...