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This article leaves one with the fallacious impression that all biological evolution leads, in some fashion, to Homo sapiens--that's unfortunate.

Someone with grounding in the History of (Life) Science (i.e. not me!) should be able to identify this image. Is it from a 19th c. English translation/adaptation of Ernst Haeckel's work? See the image here: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/events/dawson_images/haeckel_tree.gif

In any event it is clearly very out of date--never mind the contentiousness of presenting human evolution as a "tree" in the first place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jperrylsu (talk • contribs) 23:55, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When was this produced? Where was it first published? Drutt (talk) 00:37, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It says "E. Haeckel del" in the bottom-left of the image. Google suggests that it's from "From Ernst Haeckel's The Evolution of Man fifth edition London 1910".

However, our article on Ernst Haeckel doesn't mention a 1910 printing. It says the 5th (and enlarged) edition of Anthropogenie was published in 1903.

Our article Tree of life (science) shows other trees by Haeckel, but not this one.

I hope that helps someone track down better details, and provide more informative captions (eg at Timeline of human evolution). -- Quiddity (talk) 17:45, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]