Haeckel’s embryos as a question on the cover of a magazine that promoted evolution teaching after the Scopes trial. The answer was number 9.
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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Haeckel’s embryos as a question on the cover of a magazine that promoted evolution teaching after the Scopes trial. The answer was number 9.
Date
1928
From
Evolution: A Journal of Nature
