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Daily Archives: December 24, 2009

Haeckel’s Embryos in High School and College

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurDecember 24, 2009Leave a comment

Revised 14 February 2010 It is hard to deny that Haeckel’s embryos are an “icon of evolution,” true even if “icon” now evokes Jonathan Wells’ “travesty” of a book (see Matzke). The embryos were reproduced in a majority of high school and college biology textbooks from the mid-1930s through at least the 1960s (See table).…

Haeckel’s Embryos Database

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurDecember 24, 20091 Comment

Corrected February 2, 2010 This table includes data on the inclusion (or not) of variations of Ernst Haeckel’s grid of vertebrate embryos in 91 American high school and college biology textbooks published between 1907 and 1969.

© 2008-22 Ronald Ladouceur
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