Brittle Star

Explore Haeckel's visual and design analogy and its impact on ideas about evolution in the Science Tattoo Emporium.

Written byCarl Zimmer
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"This is another Haeckel- a brittle star. I am a physical chemist, but I've always admired Haeckel's obsessive use of visual and design analogy to bolster his (useful, but not entirely correct) ideas about evolution. " -Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, PhD student, University of Washington.

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