Identifier: evolutionofmanpo021897haec (find matches)
Title: The evolution of man: a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny. From the German of Ernst Haeckel
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919
Subjects: Evolution Embryology, Human Anatomy, Comparative Human beings -- Origin Embryology Evolution
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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