Ernst Haeckel and Emil du Bois-Reymond were the most prominent champions of Darwin in Germany. This essay compares their contributions to popularizing the theory of evolution, drawing special attention to the neglected figure of du Bois-Reymond as a spokesman for a world devoid of natural purpose. It suggests that the historiography of the German reception of Darwin’s theory needs to be reassessed in the light of du Bois-Reymond’s Lucretian outlook
Haeckel, E. Evolution in modern thought. New York: Modern Library, [1924] Full text See also Ernst H...
On the basis of their individual preliminary studies, the authors consider in this article the impac...
Evolution by natural selection defies the biblical account of Creation and puts man in his rightful ...
Ernst Haeckel and Emil du Bois-Reymond were the most prominent champions of Darwin in Germany. This ...
Ernst Haeckel and Emil du Bois-Reymond were the most prominent champions of Darwin in Germany. This ...
Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896) complicates the historiography of the reception of Darwinism. His p...
As a young man, Ernst Haeckel harbored a conventional set of Evangelical beliefs, mostly structured ...
In the years following the publication of the Origin, two “young and rising naturalists,” Thomas Hux...
For nearly one-and-a-half centuries, biologists interested in evolution have been haunted by the que...
Le zoologue Ernst Haeckel (1843-1919) fut l’un des partisans les plus précoces et les plus ardents d...
and the successor of eminent morphologist Carl Gegenbaur (1826–1903), who resigned from Jena in 1862...
1. Introduction En France, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) (fig. 1) est à peu près oublié. On le cite parf...
Haeckel, E. Evolution in modern thought. New York: Modern Library, [1924] Full text See also Ernst H...
On the basis of their individual preliminary studies, the authors consider in this article the impac...
Evolution by natural selection defies the biblical account of Creation and puts man in his rightful ...
Ernst Haeckel and Emil du Bois-Reymond were the most prominent champions of Darwin in Germany. This ...
Ernst Haeckel and Emil du Bois-Reymond were the most prominent champions of Darwin in Germany. This ...
Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896) complicates the historiography of the reception of Darwinism. His p...
As a young man, Ernst Haeckel harbored a conventional set of Evangelical beliefs, mostly structured ...
In the years following the publication of the Origin, two “young and rising naturalists,” Thomas Hux...
For nearly one-and-a-half centuries, biologists interested in evolution have been haunted by the que...
Le zoologue Ernst Haeckel (1843-1919) fut l’un des partisans les plus précoces et les plus ardents d...
and the successor of eminent morphologist Carl Gegenbaur (1826–1903), who resigned from Jena in 1862...
1. Introduction En France, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) (fig. 1) est à peu près oublié. On le cite parf...
Haeckel, E. Evolution in modern thought. New York: Modern Library, [1924] Full text See also Ernst H...
On the basis of their individual preliminary studies, the authors consider in this article the impac...
Evolution by natural selection defies the biblical account of Creation and puts man in his rightful ...