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Haeckel’s Alalus: on the decolonization of the…

Haeckel’s imagined Pithecanthropus Alalus is a conception of an “ape-man without speech”. In other words, Haeckel’s Alalus is a conception of a proto-human or a being-not-yet-men, and its lack of...
Haeckel-File #1: Haeckel the racist

Maybe you have lately visited the Amsterdam library and its exhibition on slavery. If so, you probably came across this drawing from Haeckel. To our twenty-first century eyes, this is quite a...

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Image: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

Cypripedium. / Orchideae. – Venusblumen.

Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

Plate 74 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
Image: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

Tympanidium. / Stephoidea. – Ringel – Strahlinge.

Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

Plate 71 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
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Image: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

Clypeaster. / Echinidea. Igelsterne.

Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

Plate 30 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
Image: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

Diplozoon. / Platodes. – Plattentiere.

Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

Plate 75 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...

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