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Haeckel's Tree of Life

Author: Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

Dater: 1866

Description: The tree of life according to Haeckel, with the three branches Plantae, Protista, Animalia. The key point of Haeckels'work was that all beings, including man, had a monophyletic origin.

Source: "Monophyletischer Stambaum der Organismen" from "Generelle Morphologie der Organismen : allgemeine Grundzüge der organischen Formen-Wissenschaft, mechanisch begründet durch die von C. Darwin reformirte Decendenz-Theorie", 1866, Berlin, through Wikimedia

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Uploaded on October 29, 2009
Taken on October 29, 2009