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HAECKEL'S EMBRYOS - IMAGES, EVOLUTION, AND FRAUD (Hardcover)
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HAECKEL'S EMBRYOS - IMAGES, EVOLUTION, AND FRAUD (Hardcover)
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Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world.
In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear
alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the
most famous are drawings of embryos by the Darwinist Ernst Haeckel
in which humans and other vertebrates begin identical, then diverge
toward their adult forms. But these icons of evolution are
notorious, too: within months of their publication in 1868, a
colleague alleged fraud, and Haeckel's many enemies have repeated
the charge ever since. His embryos nevertheless became a textbook
staple until, in 1997, a biologist accused him again, and
creationist advocates of intelligent design forced his figures out.
How could the most controversial pictures in the history of science
have become some of the most widely seen? In Haeckel's Embryos,
Nick Hopwood tells this extraordinary story in full for the first
time. He tracks the drawings and the charges against them from
their genesis in the nineteenth century to their continuing
involvement in innovation in the present day, and from Germany to
Britain to the United States.Emphasizing the changes worked by
circulation and copying, interpretation and debate, Hopwood uses
the case to explore how pictures succeed and fail, gain acceptance
and spark controversy. Along the way, he reveals how embryonic
development was made a process that we can see, compare, and
discuss, and how copying - usually dismissed as unoriginal - can be
creative, contested, and consequential. With a wealth of expertly
contextualized illustrations, Haeckel's Embryos recaptures the
shocking novelty of pictures that enthralled schoolchildren and
outraged priests, and highlights the remarkable ways these images
kept on shaping knowledge as they aged.
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