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To: Full Court
"They are used. "2002 – believe it or not – Haeckel’s drawings still appear in many high school and college textbooks. Among them are "Evolutionary Biology" by Douglas J. Futuyma (Third Edition, Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 1998), and also the bedrock text,..."

Curious. I have Futuyma's book on my lap right now. Would you care to cite a page?

Instead I read "But by the end of the 19th century, it was already clear that the law [Haeckel's "law"] rather seldom holds."

The only drawings are von Baer's and they purport something very different.
559 posted on 12/17/2005 5:33:28 PM PST by furball4paws (The new elixir of life - dehydrated toad urine.)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman

Should have pinged you, too.


566 posted on 12/17/2005 5:38:07 PM PST by furball4paws (The new elixir of life - dehydrated toad urine.)
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To: furball4paws; Full Court
What it amounts too is the creationists here are not capable of distinguishing Haeckel from Heckel and Jeckel, let alone von Baer.
606 posted on 12/17/2005 6:00:26 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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