Haeckel's embryos : images, evolution, and fraud / Nick Hopwood.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]

vii, 388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Icons of knowledge -- Two small embryos in spirits of wine -- Like flies on the parlor ceiling -- Drawing and Darwinism -- Illustrating the magic word -- Professors and progress -- Visual strategies -- Schematics, forgery, and the so-called educated -- Imperial grids -- Setting standards -- Forbidden fruit -- Creative copying -- Trials and tributes -- Scandal for the people -- A hundred Haeckels -- The textbook illustration -- Iconoclasm -- The shock of the copy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-372) and index.