The most influential copies of Haeckel’s embryos, in Romanes’s Darwin and After Darwin, vol. 1 (1892).
Featured on PDR in the essay Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution
Copying — unoriginal, dull, and derivative by definition — can be creative, contested, and consequential in its effects. Nick Hopwood tracks Haeckel’s embryos, some of the most controversial pictures in the history of science, and explores how copying put them among the most widely seen.
Also appearing in the essay…
A Series of Embryos at Three Comparable and Progressive Stages of Development
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1892
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Darwin and After Darwin
