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Haeckel
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Haeck·el (hkl), Ernst 1834-1919.
German philosopher and naturalist who supported Darwin's theory and mapped a genealogical tree relating all animal life.


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In 1866 Ernst Haeckel advanced the classification game by grouping microorganisms into their own kingdom, Protista.
06 1:30 IN THE MIDST OF A WORLD-RIDDLE: THE LEGACY OF ERNST HAECKEL'S BIOPOLITICS Malachi Martin University of Southern Mississippi In his book, The Scientific Origins of National Socialism, Daniel Gasman posits that it was 19th century German scientific biology generally and the biophilosophy of Ernst Haeckel specifically laid the ideological groundwork of the Third Reich and the radical policies of Nazi biopolitics.
This from David Simpson, a member for Upper Bann, who asked the education minister "to detail whether or not outlining the methods of Ernst Haeckel in support of the evolutionary assertion that 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny' is regarded by (i) her department; and (ii) the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment as presenting (a) evidence-based; or (b) belief-based data to pupils in science classes".
 
 
 
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