About the Author

Julia Voss gained her doctorate with a thesis on visual representations of Darwinian evolution theory. Until 2017, she was head of the art department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and deputy head of the features section. Voss is an honorary professor at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, and her research focusses on the history of abstraction, restitution and provenance, and the connections between evolutionary theory and culture.

Rainer Willmann holds a chair in zoology at Göttingen University, is director of its Zoological Museum, and is cofounder of its Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research. A specialist in phylogenetics and evolution, he conducts research into biodiversity and its history.

Reviews

...as energetic and colorful as Haeckel's life. It's scientific eye candy that feels as fresh as Haeckel's groundbreaking biological art must have seemed more than a century ago.
*The Washington Post*

A dazzling graphic work... One is left astounded by these mesmerizing wonders.
*Le Monde*