Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was an outspoken proponent of Darwinian evolutionary theory and coined the word “ecology.”
By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature – the investigation of the total relations of the animal both to its inorganic and its organic environment; including, above all, its friendly and inimical relations with those plants and animals with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact – in a word ecology is the study of all those complex interrelations referred to by Darwin as the conditions of the struggle for existence. – Ernst Haeckel
Haeckel’s Art
Famous for his highly visual work, Kunstformen der Natur (1900), Haeckel was not only a theorist but also a prolific artist whose drawings and paintings permeated the early discussions on evolution and ecology.
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Eugene Odum (1913-2002)
Biography
Carson’s Silent Spring
