All About Stem Cells
Jan 01, 2020
3 minutes
TEXT CHELSEA TANG
We hear the term “stem cells” in skincare a lot. But what’s not so well-known is that the term was first coined by German biologist Ernst Haeckel back in 1868.
He was a major supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution and drew tree diagrams (like the one on this page), which he called stammbaume (German for “stem” or family tree) to represent how organisms evolved from common ancestors. From there,
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