You notice
sealybobo never answered my question of where he got the above graphic. Ernst Haeckl was involved in some controversy as
"He became convinced he had discovered the most basic law of evolution: “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny,” or the development of an embryo (ontogeny) is a speeded-up replay of the evolution of the species (phylogeny). It was an enormously influential idea, utilized by both Darwin and Huxley, who were impressed with Haeckel’s detailed illustrations comparing development in various animals and man. In their earlier stages, according to Haeckel’s drawings, pigeons, dogs and humans looked identical.
This recapitulation theory enjoyed a tremendous vogue for a few decades, but eventually proved too vague to be of much use in research. Before it was discredited, however, it shaped scientific thought of the period, including the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud.
When critics brought charges of extensive retouching and outrageous “fudging” in his famous embryo illustrations, Haeckel replied he was only trying to make them more accurate than the faulty specimens on which they were based.
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Michael K. Richardson (department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, St. George’s Hospital Medial School, London, United Kingdom) co-authored a paper that appeared in
Research News, 5 September 1997, page 1435. That paper produced such a reaction that he wrote a letter to Science in which he (and the other five co-authors from four other countries) attempted to defend both their belief in evolution and their criticism of Haeckel. In that letter they said,
"Unfortunately Haeckel was overzealous. When we compared his drawings with real embryos, we found that he showed many details incorrectly. He did not show significant differences between species, even though his theories allowed for embryonic variation. …We therefore show here a more accurate representation of vertebrate embryos at three arbitrary stages, including the approximate stage (fig. 1, column 3), which Haeckel showed to be identical.
9 [The letter showed photographs of human, bat, cat, possum, chicken, snake, hellbender, axoloti, lungfish, salmon, gar, dogfish, and lamprey embryos, all of which look remarkably different.]"
8 Milner,
Encyclopedia of Evolution, (1990) pages 205 - 206
(Ev+)
9 Richardson, et al., Science, Vol. 280, 15 May 1998, “Haeckel, Embryos, and Evolution” page 983. (Ev)"
http://www.scienceagainstevolution.org/v3i7f.htm#footnote8
Heh. More evo shenanigans. Syriusly you criticize the evo drawings apes to man, but it didn't use fake science like Ernst Haeckel.
