Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German: [ɛʁnst ˈhɛkl̩]; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, …

Ernst Haeckel fue un ferviente evolucionista. Sus ideas al respecto fueron recogidas en 1866 en su Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (Morfología general de los organismos), cuyo segundo volumen dedicó a Charles Darwin, Wolfgang Goethe y Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.No obstante, aunque Haeckel fue un gran defensor de la idea de selección natural, en realidad ignoró el …

Ernst Haeckel Like most of Darwin's supporters, [ citation needed ] Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) put forward a doctrine of evolutionary polygenism based on the ideas of the linguist and polygenist August Schleicher , in which several different language groups had arisen separately from speechless prehuman Urmenschen (German for "original humans"), which themselves had …

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) attempted to synthesize the ideas of Lamarckism and Goethe's Naturphilosophie with Charles Darwin's concepts. While often seen as rejecting Darwin's theory of branching evolution for a more linear Lamarckian view of progressive evolution, this is not accurate: Haeckel used the Lamarckian picture to describe the ontogenetic and phylogenetic …

The omnipotence paradox is a family of paradoxes that arise with some understandings of the term omnipotent.The paradox arises, for example, if one assumes that an omnipotent being has no limits and is capable of realizing any outcome, even a logically contradictory one such as creating a square circle. Atheological arguments based on the omnipotence paradox are …

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations. Charles Darwin popularised the term "natural selection", contrasting it with artificial selection, which in his view is intentional, whereas natural selection …

Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies.Typically about 0.5 millimetres (1 ⁄ 64 in) long, they have a special feeding structure called a lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles used for filter feeding.Most marine bryozoans live in tropical waters, but a few are …

Nazism's racial policy positions may have developed from the views of important biologists of the 19th century, including French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, through Ernst Haeckel's idealist version of Lamarckism and the father of genetics, German botanist Gregor Mendel.

Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary information encoded in genes, which can be transmitted to future generations.Another major theme is evolution, which explains the unity and diversity …

Johannes Kepler (/ ˈ k ɛ p l ər /; German: [joˈhanəs ˈkɛplɐ, -nɛs -] (); 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome …