Microorganisms as eye candy: A
gallery of illustrations from the marvelous Artforms in Nature,
Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904 by Ernst Haeckel, an eminent, prolific and very controversial German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, who named thousands of new species,
mapped a genealogical
tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, phylogeny and ecology.
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on Nov 8, 2007 -
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