Ernst Heinrich Haeckel

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Ernst Heinrich Haeckel - German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919)

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biology Haeckel philosophy			That "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is the notion of Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, who posited the theory as an attempt to explain the process of gestation, the development of a human fetus, for example, reenacting, in a sense, human evolution (see Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century). The ontogeny and phylogeny of Mackey's song of the Andoumboulou (1) by Lavery, Matthew A. / African American Review			ermine ermine moth Ermined Ermines Ermit Ermite Ern Ernakulam erne Ernest Ernest Bevin Ernest Bloch Ernest Hemingway Ernest Orlando Lawrence Ernest Rutherford Ernest Solvay Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton Ernest Walton Ernestful Ernestine Schumann-Heink Ernesto Guevara Ernie Ernst Ernst Boris Chain Ernst Cassirer Ernst Heinrich Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Weber Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Mach Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann Ernst Werner von Siemens ERO erode Eroded Erodent eroding Erodium Erodium cicutarium Erodium moschatum Erodium texanum Erogate Erogation erogenous erogenous zone Erolia Erolia alpina Erolia minutilla Eros Eros-433			Ernst Busch Ernst Cassirer Ernst Cassirer Ernst Chain Ernst Chain Ernst Chladni Ernst Cohen Ernst Curtius Ernst Eduard Kummer Ernst Emil Herzfeld Ernst Emil Wiechert Ernst Engel Ernst Engelberg Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch Ernst Fischer Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni Ernst Freund Ernst Freund Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo Ernst Gofman Ernst Gottfried Fischer Ernst Gottfried Fischer Ernst Grosse Ernst Hackel Ernst Häckel Ernst Haeckel Ernst Haeckel Ernst Haeckel Ernst Haekel Ernst Heinkel Ernst Heinrich Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Heinkel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August von Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Weber Ernst Heinrich Weber Ernst Herzfeld Ernst Hoffmann Ernst I Ernst Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman Ernst Johann Biron Ernst Johann von Biron Ernst Josephson Ernst Juenger Ernst Julius Cohen Ernst Julius Wilhelm Schuppe Ernst Junger Ernst Jünger Ernst Karl Abbe Ernst Karl Koschutnig Ernst Karlovich Gofman Ernst Kirchner Ernst Kirchner Ernst Kirchweger Haus Ernst Krenek Ernst Krenkel Ernst Kummer

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