Abstract The “German Darwin” Ernst Haeckel was very influential not only in Germany but in
non-German-speaking countries as well. He was a key figure during the “first Darwinian …

Summary The German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was arguably the most
influential champion of Darwin's theory of evolution on the European continent and one of …

Abstract 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 …

The year 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Ernst Haeckel, a German
zoologist, artist, and philosopher of science, who defended and supplemented Charles …

It is a widely accepted view that Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution is founded
on the notion of adaptation, a creative evolutionary process driven by natural selection and …

Evolutionary theory has been likened to a “universal acid”(Daniel Dennett) that erodes its
way into more and more areas of science. Yet, every single branch of biology has developed …

It is well known that the contribution of Alfred Russell Wallace (1823–1913) to the
development of the “Darwinian” principle of natural selection has often been neglected …

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is unquestionably one of the chief landmarks in
biology. The Origin (as it is widely known) was literally only an abstract of the manuscript …

On the classical account of evolution by natural selection (ENS) found in Lewontin and many
subsequent authors, ENS is conceived as involving three key ingredients: phenotypic …

Since the 1930s, it has been widely recognized and oft repeated that RA Fisher (1890–
1962), JBS Haldane (1892–1964) and S. Wright (1889–1988) successfully developed …