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When was Ernst Haeckel born?

  • 1834

  • 1888

  • 1913

  • 1801

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Ernst Haeckel was born on February 16, 1834 in Potsdam, Prussia. He was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, and artist who is best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory and for coining the terms "phylum" and "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny".
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