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Haeckel

By Carl Zimmer
Feb 17, 2008 4:07 AMMay 18, 2019 1:49 PM
Haeckel

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"This is a Tubulariae organism penned by the German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel . Flower-like - it is in fact a marine organism – I love the ambiguity. The image can be found in Haeckel’s original grand publication Kunstformen der natur (1904) . A stunning book." – Science journalist.

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