A botanist asks: type specimen for Homo sapiens?

[Hartmut H. Hilger]

Hi, Matt, I remember this was a question some time ago in TAXACOM. It
would be best to use the famous picture of Linne as iconotypus.
Hartmut




On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Matt Buys wrote:

> Hi
>
> Bill Bryson in his "Short history of everything" states that there is
> to date no type specimen for H. sapiens. Is this true?
>
> M.
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