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(The Natural History of Creation) contained various draw-
ings of embryos, together with his comments on them.
A short time later, Haeckel was to go down in history as

the original author of evolutionist interpretation of embryol-
ogy. He read The Origin of the Species (1859) with great excite-
ment, accepted what Darwin wrote, and became a more avid
evolutionist than Darwin himself. To make his own contribu-
tion to the theory, he conducted a series of experiments and
published Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte in 1868. In it, he ad-
vanced his theory of embryology that was to win him fame.

From the beginning, he proposed that the embryos of human
beings and certain animals developed in the same way. The
drawings of the embryos of a human being, an ape and a dog
on page 242 were proof of this. The drawings were appar-
ently identical and, according to Haeckel, these creatures
came from a common root.
In fact, it was the drawings, not these creatures, that Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
came from a common root. Haeckel made a drawing of one
embryo and then, after making slight changes to it, presented

them together as embryos of a
human being, an ape and a
dog. When the same draw-
ings were printed side

The book "The Origin of Species" led Haeckel into
serious errors.

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