Ernst Haeckel's Evolution of Man, 1874
Ernst Haeckel's Evolution of Man, 1874. This plate represents the embryos of two of the lower, and two of the higher Vertebrates in three different stages: of a fish (F); of an amphibian (salamandar, S); of a reptile (tortoise, T); and of a bird (chick, A). Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German biologist, naturalist, 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 Protista
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