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Ernst Haeckel
's "tree of life", Darwin's metaphorical description of the pattern of universal common descent made literal by his greatest popularizer in the German scientific world. This is the English version of Ernst Haeckel's tree from the
The Evolution of Man
(Published 1879), one of several depictions of a tree of life by Haeckel. "Man" is at the crown of the tree; for Haeckel, as for many early evolutionists, humans were considered the pinnacle of evolution.
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Illustration of the ''Tree of Life'' by Haeckel in the ''The Evolution of Man'' (Published 1879). To illustrate the [[Tree of life (Science)]] article Uploaded from http://www.scienceinschool.org/repository/images/issue2tree3_large.jpg
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