Image: Haeckel-embryos-weeks4-6
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Description: The pictures illustrate Ernst Haeckel's biogenetic law. In the beginning embryos of different species look remarkable similar, later different characteristics develop. The images initiated controversies and charges of fraud.
Title: Haeckel-embryos-weeks4-6
Credit: Ernst Haeckel: Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1868.
Author: Ernst Haeckel
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