The Evolution of Man — Volume 1

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The Evolution of Man — Volume 1

by Ernst Haeckel

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FIGURE 1.1. THE HUMAN OVUM. - FIGURE 1.2. STEM-CELL OF AN ECHINODERM. - FIGURE 1.3. THREE EPITHELIAL CELLS. - FIGURE 1.4. FIVE SPINY OR GROOVED CELLS. - FIGURE 1.5. TEN LIVER-CELLS. - FIGURE 1.6. NINE STAR-SHAPED BONE-CELLS. - FIGURE 1.7. ELEVEN STAR-SHAPED CELLS. - FIGURE 1.8. UNFERTILISED OVUM OF AN ECHINODERM. - FIGURE 1.9. A LARGE BRANCHING NERVE-CELL. - FIGURE 1.10. BLOOD-CELLS. - FIGURE 1.11. INDIRECT OR MITOTIC CELL-DIVISION. - FIGURE 1.12. MOBILE CELLS. - FIGURE 1.13. OVA OF VARIOUS ANIMALS. - FIGURE 1.14. THE HUMAN OVUM. - FIGURE 1.15. FERTILISED OVUM OF HEN. - FIGURE 1.16. A CREEPING AMOEBA. - FIGURE 1.17. DIVISION OF AN AMOEBA. - FIGURE 1.18. OVUM OF A SPONGE. - FIGURE 1.19. BLOOD-CELLS, OR PHAGOCYTES. - FIGURE 1.20. SPERMIA OR SPERMATOZOA. - FIGURE 1.21. SPERMATOZOA OF VARIOUS ANIMALS. - FIGURE 1.22. A SINGLE HUMAN SPERMATOZOON. - FIGURE 1.23. FERTILISATION OF THE OVUM. - FIGURE 1.24. IMPREGNATED ECHINODERM OVUM. - FIGURE 1.25. IMPREGNATION OF THE STAR-FISH OVUM. - FIGURES 1.26 AND 1.27. IMPREGNATION OF SEA-URCHIN OVUM. - FIGURE 1.28. STEM-CELL OF A RABBIT. - FIGURE 1.29. GASTRULATION OF A CORAL. - FIGURE 1.30. GASTRULA OF A GASTRAEAD. - FIGURE 1.31. GASTRULA OF A WORM. - FIGURE 1.32. GASTRULA OF AN ECHINODERM. - FIGURE 1.33. GASTRULA OF AN ARTHROPOD. - FIGURE 1.34. GASTRULA OF A MOLLUSC. - FIGURE 1.35. GASTRULA OF A VERTEBRATE. - FIGURE 1.36. GASTRULA OF A LOWER SPONGE. - FIGURE 1.37. CELLS FROM THE PRIMARY GERMINAL LAYERS. - FIGURE 1.38. GASTRULATION OF THE AMPHIOXUS. - FIGURE 1.39. GASTRULA OF THE AMPHIOXUS. - FIGURE 1.40. CLEAVAGE OF THE FROG'S OVUM. - FIGURES 1.41 TO 1.44. SECTIONS OF FERTILISED TOAD OVUM. - FIGURES 1.45 TO 1.48. GASTRULATION OF THE SALAMANDER. - FIGURE 1.49. SEGMENTATION OF THE LAMPREY. - FIGURE 1.50. GASTRULATION OF THE LAMPREY. - FIGURE 1.51. GASTRULATION OF CERATODUS. - FIGURE 1.52. OVUM OF A DEEP-SEA BONY FISH. - FIGURE 1.53. SEGMENTATION OF A BONY FISH. - FIGURE 1.54. DISCOID GASTRULA OF A BONY FISH. - FIGURES 1.55 AND 1.56. SECTIONS OF BLASTULA OF SHARK. - FIGURE 1.57. DISCOID SEGMENTATION OF BIRD'S OVUM. - FIGURES 1.58 TO 1.61. GASTRULATION OF THE BIRD. - FIGURE 1.62. GERMINAL DISK OF THE LIZARD. - FIGURES 1.63 AND 1.64. GASTRULATION OF THE OPOSSUM. - FIGURES 1.65 TO 1.67. GASTRULATION OF THE OPOSSUM. - FIGURES 1.68 TO 1.71. GASTRULATION OF THE RABBIT. - FIGURE 1.72. GASTRULA OF THE PLACENTAL MAMMAL. - FIGURE 1.73. GASTRULA OF THE RABBIT. - FIGURES 1.74 AND 1.75. DIAGRAM OF THE FOUR SECONDARY GERMINAL LAYERS. - FIGURES 1.76 AND 1.77. COELOMULA OF SAGITTA. - FIGURE 1.78. SECTION OF YOUNG SAGITTA. - FIGURES 1.79 AND 1.80. SECTION OF AMPHIOXUS-LARVAE. - FIGURES 1.81 AND 1.82. SECTION OF AMPHIOXUS-LARVAE. - FIGURES 1.83 AND 1.84. CHORDULA OF THE AMPHIOXUS. - FIGURES 1.85 AND 1.86. CHORDULA OF THE AMPHIBIA. - FIGURES 1.87 AND 1.88. SECTION OF COELOMULA-EMBRYOS OF VERTEBRATES. - FIGURES 1.89 AND 1.90. SECTION OF COELOMULA-EMBRYO OF TRITON. - FIGURE 1.91. DORSAL PART OF THREE TRITON-EMBRYOS. - FIGURE 1.92. CHORDULA-EMBRYO OF A BIRD. - FIGURE 1.93. VERTEBRATE-EMBRYO OF A BIRD. - FIGURES 1.94 AND 1.95. SECTION OF THE PRIMITIVE STREAK OF A CHICK. - FIGURE 1.96. SECTION OF THE PRIMITIVE GROOVE OF A RABBIT. - FIGURE 1.97. SECTION OF PRIMITIVE MOUTH OF A HUMAN EMBRYO. - FIGURES 1.98 TO 1.102. THE IDEAL PRIMITIVE VERTEBRATE. - FIGURE 1.103. REDUNDANT MAMMARY GLANDS. - FIGURE 1.104. A GREEK GYNECOMAST. - FIGURE 1.105. SEVERANCE OF THE DISCOID MAMMAL EMBRYO. - FIGURES 1.106 AND 1.107. THE VISCERAL EMBRYONIC VESICLE. - FIGURE 1.108. FOUR ENTODERMIC CELLS. - FIGURE 1.109. TWO ENTODERMIC CELLS. - FIGURES 1.110 TO 1.114. OVUM OF A RABBIT. - FIGURES 1.115 TO 1.118. EMBRYONIC VESICLE OF A RABBIT. - FIGURE 1.119. SECTION OF THE GASTRULA OF FOUR VERTEBRATES. - FIGURES 1.120 TO 1.123. EMBRYONIC SHIELD OF A RABBIT. - FIGURE 1.124. COELOMULA OF THE AMPHIOXUS. - FIGURE 1.125. CHORDULA OF A FROG. - FIGURE 1.126. SECTION OF FROG-EMBRYO. - FIGURES 1.127 AND 1.128. DORSAL SHIELD OF A CHICK. - FIGURE 1.129. SECTION OF HIND END OF A CHICK. - FIGURE 1.130. GERMINAL AREA OF THE RABBIT. - FIGURE 1.131. EMBRYO OF THE OPOSSUM. - FIGURE 1.132. EMBRYONIC SHIELD OF THE RABBIT. - FIGURE 1.133. HUMAN EMBRYO AT THE SANDAL-STAGE. - FIGURE 1.134. EMBRYONIC SHIELD OF RABBIT. - FIGURE 1.135. EMBRYONIC SHIELD OF OPOSSUM. - FIGURE 1.136. EMBRYONIC DISK OF A CHICK. - FIGURE 1.137. EMBRYONIC DISK OF A HIGHER VERTEBRATE. - FIGURES 1.138 TO 1.142. SECTIONS OF MATURING MAMMAL EMBRYO. - FIGURES 1.143 TO 1.146. SECTIONS OF EMBRYONIC CHICKS. - FIGURE 1.147. SECTION OF EMBRYONIC CHICK. - FIGURE 1.148. SECTION OF FORE-HALF OF CHICK-EMBRYO. - FIGURES 1.149 AND 1.150. SECTIONS OF HUMAN EMBRYOS. - FIGURE 1.151. SECTION OF A SHARK-EMBRYO. - FIGURE 1.152. SECTION OF A DUCK-EMBRYO. - FIGURES 1.153 TO 1.155. SOLE-SHAPED EMBRYONIC DISK OF CHICK. - FIGURES 1.156 AND 1.157. EMBRYO OF THE AMPHIOXUS. - FIGURES 1.158 TO 1.160. EMBRYO OF THE AMPHIOXUS. - FIGURES 1.161 AND 1.162. SECTIONS OF SHARK-EMBRYOS. - FIGURE 1.163. SECTION OF A TRITON-EMBRYO. - FIGURES 1.164 TO 1.166. VERTEBRAE. - FIGURE 1.167. HEAD OF A SHARK-EMBRYO. - FIGURES 1.168 AND 1.169. HEAD OF A CHICK-EMBRYO. - FIGURE 1.170. HEAD OF A DOG-EMBRYO. - FIGURE 1.171. HUMAN EMBRYO OF THE FOURTH WEEK. - FIGURE 1.172. SECTION OF SHOULDER OF CHICK-EMBRYO. - FIGURE 1.173. SECTION OF PELVIC REGION OF CHICK-EMBRYO. - FIGURE 1.174. DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIZARD'S LEGS. - FIGURE 1.175. HUMAN-EMBRYO FIVE WEEKS OLD. - FIGURES 1.176 TO 1.178. EMBRYOS OF THE BAT. - FIGURE 1.179. HUMAN EMBRYOS. - FIGURE 1.180. HUMAN EMBRYO OF THE FOURTH WEEK. - FIGURE 1.181. HUMAN EMBRYO OF THE FIFTH WEEK. - FIGURE 1.182. SECTION OF TAIL OF HUMAN EMBRYO. - FIGURES 1.183 AND 1.184. HUMAN EMBRYO DISSECTED. - FIGURE 1.185. MISS JULIA PASTRANA. - FIGURES 1.186 TO 1.190. HUMAN EMBRYOS. - FIGURE 1.191. HUMAN EMBRYOS OF SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN DAYS. - FIGURES 1.192 AND 1.193. HUMAN EMBRYO OF FOURTH WEEK. - FIGURE 1.194. HUMAN EMBRYO WITH ITS MEMBRANES. - FIGURE 1.195. DIAGRAM OF THE EMBRYONIC ORGANS. - FIGURE 1.196. SECTION OF THE PREGNANT WOMB. - FIGURE 1.197. EMBRYO OF SIAMANG-GIBBON. - FIGURE 1.198. SECTION OF PREGNANT WOMB. - FIGURES 1.199 AND 1.200. HUMAN FOETUS AND PLACENTA. - FIGURE 1.201. VITELLINE VESSELS IN GERMINATIVE AREA. - FIGURE 1.202. BOAT-SHAPED EMBRYO OF THE DOG. - FIGURE 1.203. LAR OR WHITE-HANDED GIBBON. - FIGURE 1.204. YOUNG ORANG. - FIGURE 1.205. WILD ORANG. - FIGURE 1.206. BALD-HEADED CHIMPANZEE. - FIGURE 1.207. FOETAL MEMBRANES AND CIRCULATION. - FIGURE 1.208. FEMALE GORILLA. - FIGURE 1.209. MALE GIANT-GORILLA. - GLOSSARY.

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Delving into the earliest stages of life, this classic study examines human embryology alongside the development of a wide array of animal species. By tracing the formation of the ovum, cleavage, gastrulation and early organ patterns, the author reveals striking parallels that hint at a common evolutionary heritage. The text balances clear explanations with thoughtful commentary on how modern embryology reshapes our understanding of organic evolution.

A standout feature is the extensive collection of detailed plates, each one guiding the listener through the microscopic world of cells, membranes and nascent structures across fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. These visual journeys are described in vivid prose, making complex concepts feel tangible even without the pictures. Listeners will come away with a fresh appreciation of how the beginnings of an embryo echo the broader story of life’s diversification.

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Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-09-01

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Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel

1834–1919

A brilliant and controversial 19th-century naturalist, he helped popularize evolutionary thinking in Germany and gave biology some of its most enduring vocabulary. He is also remembered for the striking scientific illustrations that turned marine life into unforgettable art.

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