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Description Ernst Haeckel's "tree of life", Darwin's metaphorical description of the pattern of universal common descent made literal by his greatest popularizer in the German scientific world. This is the English version of Ernst Haeckel's tree from the The Evolution of Man (Published 1879), one of several depictions of a tree of life by Haeckel. "Man" is at the crown of the tree; for Haeckel, as for many early evolutionists, humans were considered the pinnacle of evolution.
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Source First version from en.wikipedia; description page was here. Later versions derived from this scan, from the American Philosophical Society Museum.
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Ernst Haeckel  (1834–1919)  wikidata:Q48246 s:en:Author:Ernst Haeckel q:it:Ernst Haeckel
 
Ernst Haeckel
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Birth name: Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel; Haeckel; Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
Description German naturalist, philosopher and artist
Date of birth/death 16 February 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 9 August 1919 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Potsdam Jena
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creator QS:P170,Q48246
Other versions File:Tree of life by Haeckel cleanup 2.png - png file in black and white

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  • 2006-12-11 22:38 Lumos3 560×863×8 (79484 bytes) Illustration of the ''Tree of Life'' by Haeckel in the ''The Evolution of Man'' (Published 1879). To illustrate the [[Tree of life (Science)]] article Uploaded from http://www.scienceinschool.org/repository/images/issue2tree3_large.jpg

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current03:11, 1 March 2009Thumbnail for version as of 03:11, 1 March 20091,804 × 2,856 (6.83 MB)Ragesossa little more effort to even out the shading
01:43, 1 March 2009Thumbnail for version as of 01:43, 1 March 20091,804 × 2,856 (6.83 MB)Ragesossfurther edit
00:03, 1 March 2009Thumbnail for version as of 00:03, 1 March 20091,820 × 2,870 (6.84 MB)RagesossA retouched version to remove dust, damage and artifacts (using GIMP), derived from the previous one
23:40, 6 February 2009Thumbnail for version as of 23:40, 6 February 20091,903 × 2,931 (3 MB)Ragesossbetter, larger version from http://www.flickr.com/photos/apsmuseum/2783553519/
02:13, 12 September 2007Thumbnail for version as of 02:13, 12 September 2007560 × 863 (78 KB)Grook Da Oger{{Information |Description=Illustration of the ''Tree of Life'' by Haeckel in the ''The Evolution of Man'' (Published 1879). To illustrate the en:Tree of life (Science) article Uploaded from http://www.scienceinschool.org/repository/images/issue2tre

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