Haeckeling, trying to wrap it up....

Are you suggesting that the study of evolution via embryology is discarded these days? My man Mayr doesn't seem to think so, nor apparently does he have a problem with reproducing some of Haeckel's drawings--with the addendum about the fraud that I quote on the other thread.Mayr says, "study of the embryonic stages very often shows how a common ancestral stage gradually diverges in different branches of the ancestral tree" (27).

Mayr's book was published in 2001. My point is that he doesn't think that Haeckel's drawings (at least the ones he reproduced in his book) are useless. Otherwise he wouldn't have reproduced them.So maybe Haeckel was not all wrong after all--despite his frauds.