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- adjective Of or relating to the
zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919).
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Examples
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The perceived materialism of Darwinian biology and Haeckelian monism deterred those who cultivated the mystical ideal of a transcendence of will.
Eric Michael Johnson: Intelligent Design Creationists Abuse Science and Victims of the Holocaust 2010
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The party and its representatives must not only reject a part of the Haeckelian conception -- other parts of it have occasionally been advanced -- but, more generally, every internal party dispute that involves the particulars of research and the teachings of Haeckel must cease.
Eric Michael Johnson: Intelligent Design Creationists Abuse Science and Victims of the Holocaust 2010
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Wait, wait, you protest: Wells' book was explaining that Haeckelian recapitulation was wrong, and that there were both errors and intentional misrepresentations of embryos in that old work.
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Wait, wait, you protest: Wells' book was explaining that Haeckelian recapitulation was wrong, and that there were both errors and intentional misrepresentations of embryos in that old work.
Wells’ false accusation against Randy Olson - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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If this were the case, then the worst case of mass market fraud around would have to be Wells' own Icons of Evolution: it contains 4 versions of the Haeckelian diagram, including the original, and talks about it for 28 pages.
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If this were the case, then the worst case of mass market fraud around would have to be Wells' own Icons of Evolution: it contains 4 versions of the Haeckelian diagram, including the original, and talks about it for 28 pages.
Wells’ false accusation against Randy Olson - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Intelligent Design creationism has contributed absolutely nothing to either refuting Haeckelian ideas, which was the product of working biologists at the end of the 19th century, nor has it generated any better, testable explanations for the conservation of embryonic body plans.
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Intelligent Design creationism has contributed absolutely nothing to either refuting Haeckelian ideas, which was the product of working biologists at the end of the 19th century, nor has it generated any better, testable explanations for the conservation of embryonic body plans.
Wells’ false accusation against Randy Olson - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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One serious question is about how wide the waist of the hourglass actually is: an overzealous Haeckelian interpretation would be that it is very narrow indeed, but serious embryology none of which seems to be done by “intelligent design” proponents demonstrates that there is a significant amount of variation within the phylotypic period.
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The Haeckelian approach reflected the context in which those studying cells and embryos worked at the end of the 19th century.
Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005
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