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Ernst HaeckelEvolution's controversial artist.

By Amanda Schaffer
Posted Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005, at 12:28 PM ET

Click here to read a slide-show essay about Ernst Haeckel, 19th-century evolutionary theorist and subject of the new film Proteus.

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Amanda Schaffer is a science and medical columnist for Slate.
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