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Uwe Hoßfeld1, Elizabeth Watts2, Georgy S Levit1
1Arbeitsgruppe Biologiedidaktik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; ITMO University, 191187 St. Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
In 1866, the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) published the first Darwinian trees of life in the history of biology in his book General Morphology of Organisms. We take a specific look at the first phylogenetic trees for the plant kingdom that Haeckel created as part of this two-volume work.
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