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I'm Thinking of Calling It Science Tattoo Friday

Category: ChatterScience Tattoos
Posted on: September 14, 2007 1:00 AM, by Carl Zimmer

Origin of Species.jpg"Attached is a photo of a tattoo I got immediately after turning in the final paperwork a little over two weeks ago for the completion of my Ph.D. in biological anthropology. It's the first evolutionary tree that Darwin sketched in his 1837 Notebook B on the transmutation of species." --Julienne

We're up to 64 tattoos in the flickr set, which has been seen by over 96,000 people since I set it up last month (which doesn't count the 130,000+ pageviews of the original post). I think I'll just post my favorite of the week each Friday until people stop sending them to me.

(See Darwin's original sketch here)

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#1

Nice! It leaves out my favourite part of that diagram, though, which was the annotation, "I think." ;)

Posted by: Joshua | September 14, 2007 1:14 PM

#2

I actually have that tattooed on my shoulder - funny, I didn't think that anyone else had it. Since I can't post photos, here's a link to where a photo of it *is* posted (keep it mind, it's pretty fresh in this photo, and it looks better now that it's completely healed):
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2343641&userid=102696

Posted by: Lola | September 16, 2007 1:13 AM

#3

Hmm... by blog precedent shouldn't this be taturday ?

Posted by: KevinM | September 18, 2007 11:34 AM

#4

Coool

Posted by: Hari N Iyer | September 20, 2007 8:18 PM

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