Let’s hope the phylogeny of life doesn’t get revised drastically anytime soon, for the sake of this woman…More details–and lots of new tattoos over at my Science Tattoo Emporium. (Plus a cool new category cloud for browsing!)
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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March 28th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Ouch. Such a detailed phylogenetic tree is really the last thing I could recommend as a tattoo.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Whatever! this tattoo is awesome. I think this picture was used in an ecology lecture at my university (big 10!)
I would rather have this tattoo than a fairy or rose a la 1990’s. This is SCIENCE!