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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

A Sample of Haeckeliana

From Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur.

Best known for teaching the modern world a lesson about taking personal style a little too far when illustrating comparative embryology - and in turn giving anti-evolutionists a tiny bit of so-called forgery to add to their arsenal.

But he also brought a unique sense of fantasy to the world of sponges, fungi, and anemone, among other things.