Haeckel

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• Professor Haeckel maintains," says Mr. Wallace, "_that the struggle for existence in nature evolves new forms without design, just as the will of man produces new varieties in cultivation with design_. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
• The German zoologist, Ernst Haeckel, suggested, in this theory, the idea that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny means that as over the short time span of nine months, a fetus, in the womb, goes through ontogenetic phases of development, it recapitulates the stages of development we see as we go up the evolutional scale -- phylogenetically, that took billions of years to develop. Printing: A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi
• Evolutionary morphologists such as Haeckel and Gegenbaur argued that true homology can only exist between two parts that have developed from the same anlage.
• Professor Haeckel, of the famous University of Jena, would not deny this, with all that his new terms "ontogeny" and "phylogeny" may imply. Life: Its True Genesis
• Haeckel distinguished _autogeny_ and _plasmogeny_, applying the former term when the formative fluid in which the first living matter was supposed to arise was inorganic and the latter when it was organic, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
• We encounter the term ‘ape man’ in its Greek version, Pithecanthropus, in the writings of Ernst Haeckel, who was one of Charles Darwin's great supporters in Germany during the nineteenth century.
• Ernst Haeckel coining the phrase ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny to describe the view. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• Haeckel noted that multicellular animal organisms follow a common pattern in early embryological development.
• Much like in E. Haeckel's quip 'Ontogenesis recapitulates phylogenesis'. Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 4 of 6
• That is the strawman Darwin erected - Creationism = fixity of species, and as with Haeckel's embryos has managed to stick around regardless of the facts. Blast From the Past