Notes
German original: “Ich acquirierte das Schwein sofort, ließ dem Niederstechen die Pfoten Abhacken u. schickte dieselben an Darwin”. Courtesy: Otto Zacharias in a letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 May 1877; Archive of the Ernst-Haeckel-House in Jena, correspondence Haeckel.
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We thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grant no. HO 2143/9-1) for generous support of our research into the history of Evo-devo. Empirical Evo-devo research in LOs laboratory is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grants no. OL 134/2-4 and 138/1) and by the Volkswagenstiftung.
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Olsson, L., Hoßfeld, U. & Breidbach, O. Preface. Between Ernst Haeckel and the homeobox: the role of developmental biology in explaining evolution. Theory Biosci. 128, 1–5 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12064-009-0060-5
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