Two of six comparative embryological plates in the fifth (1903) and sixth (1910) editions of Haeckel’s Anthropogenie. The species are tuatara, river turtle, kiwi, spiny anteater, dolphin, and gibbon.
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.
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Comparative Embryological Plates
Artist
Date
1910
From
Anthropogenie
Source
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive / Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
