| Примечания: Haeckel's
Pithecanthropus alalus (speechless ape-man) as depicted in
1894 by the painter Gabriel Max. This painting was commissioned
by Haeckel's rival Rudolf Virchow (who was openly opposed to the
application of the theory of organic descent to human kind).
Instead of having the desired effect of making sport of Haeckel
(who, in 1874, had been theoretically audacious enough to
include pithecanthropus in a hypothetical evolutionary tree),
the painting served instead to reify Haeckel's unsubstantiated
postulation. This reified image, negatively influenced at least
two decades of hominid specimen interpretation. It was later
hung in the Haeckel Museum in Jena. |
