Ernst Haeckel's "tree of life", drawn in 1874. This is the English version published in The Evolution of Man (1879).

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Ernst Haeckel's "tree of life", drawn in 1874. 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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