Ernst Haeckel (1834 – 1919) was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor 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, and the kingdom Protista. Too bad he was also a total racist and apologist for ethnic discrimination. (His portrait appears third from the left on the top row and his illustration throughout in this quilt of images provided by the tentacles of Google and avid digitizers worldwide. Two more - out of thousands - of his amazing illustrations are below).
Ernst Haeckel (1834 – 1919) was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor 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, and the kingdom Protista. Too bad he was also a total racist and apologist for ethnic discrimination. (His portrait appears third from the left on the top row and his illustration throughout in this quilt of images provided by the tentacles of Google and avid digitizers worldwide. Two more - out of thousands - of his amazing illustrations are below).
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