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Endangered: A Study of Morphological Drawing in Zoological Taxonomy
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 47, Number 3, 2014
- pp. 232-239
- Article
- Additional Information
Drawing has long been the backbone of zoological taxonomy. Recently, however, morphological drawing has quietly fallen into a critical decline and is now an endangered practice. The author discusses the reasons for this decline and why morphological drawing is worth saving.