SOURCE: A review of The Evolution of Man, in Science, Vol. 22, No. 553, August 4, 1905, pp. 137-39.

In the following review of The Evolution of Man, a critic faults Haeckel for making broad and often unsubstantiated claims.

In the two stately and richly illustrated volumes before us we have a translation of the fifth edition of Haeckel's Anthropogenie, and coming as they do from the pen of one who may now be regarded as a Nestor of zoology and the most vigorous exponent of the historical method of investigation, they present not a little interest. They profess to give in their course of some nine hundred pages an account of the embryological and comparative anatomical evidence bearing on the origin of man, a subject of perennial interest not only to the laity, but also to professional zoologists, since it involves the problem of the origin of the vertebrates.

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