[Taxacom] Scientific illustration

[Don.Colless at csiro.au]

It CAN generate some amusement, as when our female illustrator remarked, at morning tea, that she'd been "drawing K.K.'s genitalia for the last 6 months and they seemed to go on forever."
 
Donald H. Colless
CSIRO Div of Entomology
GPO Box 1700
Canberra 2601
don.colless at csiro.au
tuz li munz est miens envirun

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Don't worry, Bob: when the COI barcodes replace morphological
diagnostic features, we can all stop looking at - and drawing
pictures of - genitalia. Then we can tell people about our work
without fear of embarrassment.

[For the humor-impaired: YES, I'M BEING FACETIOUS. I know full well
that no matter how taxonomy evolves in the future, we will always be
obsessed with genitalia.]  ;-)

Peace,
--

Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314        skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
              http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html
   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82

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