# Ernst Haeckel
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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German: [ˈʔɛɐ̯nst ˈhɛkl̩]; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, 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 ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.
The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures, collected in his Kunstformen der Natur ("Art Forms of Nature").
Why Selling to Healthcare Is So Hard: Inside the ‘Abominable Creature’
In this episode, we sit down with healthcare economist and consultant Andrew Tsang to unravel the US healthcare economy — a $4.9 trillion “abominable creature” made up of tangled incentives, complex financial flows, and systemic contradictions.
We explore Andrew’s viral system diagram, inspired by …
CYKIAE Season 15 Part 15. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – RNA.
Those oh so primitive views of life that the scientists of Darwin’s day had, had gradually evolved, yes that’s the right word, to the point where it was about to tell the world that life had emerged from matter – and that God didn’t matter! Oh happy day.
Tag words: God; DNA; RNA; Elliot Volkin; Laz…
Ep. 15: Naughty Or Nice?
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O Tannenworm, O Tannenworm!How lovely are your tentacles!
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Lemuria: The Sunk Continent Myth vs. Geological Truth
A single footnote in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater was intended to solve a simple primate distribution puzzle. Instead, it birthed Lemuria, a legendary sunken continent that has captivated mystics, thrill-seekers, and pseudo-scientists for over 150 years. In this episode of Unexplained History, …
Ep39 - What a Victorian Biologist Can Teach Us About Thinking
I came to Eduardo's office expecting to talk about cells and data. What I found on his wall were the illustrations of Ernst Haeckel, a 19th-century German naturalist whose drawings of jellyfish, radiolaria and embryos were so beautiful they shaped how an entire generation understood life on earth. …
Ep. 16: Cute, Weird Little Dudes
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Survival of the fittest? Nah.Survival of the weirdest? Oh heck yea.
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Ep. 17: If Not Living Fossil, Why Fossil Shaped?
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Through past and present, why, exactly, are horseshoe crabs shaped like a friend?
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The Invasion of Spain - A Natural Consequence of Materialism
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Ernst Haeckel, The Riddle of the Universe (1900): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42968/42968-h/42968-h.htmDescartes, Discourse on the Method, Part IV: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Discourse_on_Method/Part_4Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Book III: htt…
Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
Jason W. Moore discusses the problematic history of the nature-society divide, his alternative world-ecology approach and the challenges of building socialism.
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False Ideas About Truth - Part 28 - Muncaster’s 3 Key Questions
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(1) When Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, evolutionists combined the system of Carole Linnaeus developed in 1735 of classifying organisms based on the idea that common body structures belong in the same category. Humans have elbows as do apes, chickens, dogs, and bats…
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