Image: Human pidegree

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Description: G Avery's opinion of The modern theory of the descent of man, by Ernst Haeckel, published in Anthropogenie oder Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen (The Evolution of Man),1874. The figure show the human pedigree as a Great Chain of Being, illustrated by modern and fossil species. Hand-coloured print Legend: 1 Amoeba 1a Asexual reproduction (amoeba dividing) 2 Sexual reproduction (cell with spore) 3 Multi-cellular organism (early embryonic stage) 4 Muliticellular organism with three germ layers (blastula) 5 Organism with primitive mouth (gastrula) 6 Planaria 7 Worm (leech) 8 Primitive chordate (tunicate larva) 8a Adult tunicate 9 Lancelet 10 Jawless fish (lamprey) 11 Cartilaginous fishes (shark) 12 Australian lungfish 13 South American lungfish 14 Aquatic reptile (plesiosaur) 15 Early amphibian (labytinthodont) 16 Modern amphibian (newt) 17 Reptile (iguana) 18 Monotreme (platypus) 19 Marsupial (kangaroo) 20 Prosimian (lemur) 21 Monkey (langur) 22 Ape (orangutan) 23 Ape-man (Pithecanthropus) 24 Modern human (a Papuan)
Title: Human pidegree
Credit: Scientific American
Author: G Avery
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