If you were living in Britain during your schooldays, you were more fortunate in your education than I was. I was taught very little about science at primary school; I think that religion was the single subject that took up the largest amount of time. I remember my parents taking me on one trip to the Natural History Museum during my primary school days, but a single trip, however interesting, was not enough for me to learn much about any aspect of biology.
I was taught biology at secondary school for one or two years, but that was mostly about basic anatomy. Evolution was hardly mentioned, although perhaps it formed a part of the O-level or A-level course. However, my secondary school library didn't even have a copy of The Origin of Species; I first read it in a copy that I borrowed from the local public library (and even that had an anti-evolutionary foreword by W.R. Thompson).
I also read about Haeckel in library books and perhaps saw his drawings of embryos, but the books were generally dismissive of his hypothesis that ontogeny repeats phylogeny. Since Haeckel died in 1919, it would be interesting to know whether you have learnt anything about embryology that has been published since his time.
Finally, it would also be interesting to know your opinions of geology and palaeontology. In particular, do you accept that sedimentary rocks have been deposited over periods of millions or billions of years, and that there is a succession of fossils from the Cambrian period to the present day that provides a valid method of correlating rocks of the same age from different parts of the world?
