"The Cape Cod Museum of Art will host "Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature," prints from a rare book collection of MBLWHOI Library, from Sept. 16 to Nov. 16."

"Haeckel (1834-1919) was the German scientist who first coined the terms "Darwinism" and "ecology." After reading Darwin's "Origin of Species," Haeckel became one of the more prolific and vociferous supporters of evolution, but was less supportive of natural selection as the mechanism by which evolution occurred. He was first to postulate a "missing link" between ape and man and was proven correct when Java man was found in 1891."

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