Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1997

ERNST HEINRICH PHILIPP AUGUST HAECKEL (1834-1919) Anthropogenie; oder, Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. W. Engelmann 1874 xvi [4] 732 pp., illus., plates (part fold., 1 col.). 23.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1995

This important contribution to the theory of evolution has had more influence on later biology than Haeckel's perhaps better-known work, Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (see No. 1996). It contains a clear statement of the embryological processes, and it is in this work that Haeckel states the well-known tenet that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny," that is, that the formation of the individual is a repetition of the formation of the species, so graphically illustrated in Table XII of the book.

See Related Record(s): 1966

Cited references: Cushing H9; Garrison-Morton 493; Waller 3917

Gift of John Martin, M.D.