Gary,
John Eisenberg and I looked this up many years ago in the Mammals of the
World. Although my memory fails me on details I think a skull lectotype is
in the Oslo Museum.
Kurt
At 05:02 PM 5/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Is it true that in recognition to his contributions to taxonomy Linnaeus has
>>been designated to be the type for Homo sapiens? Kind of silly, isn't it?
>
>Yes, actually, it is true. Someone designated Linnaeus as the lectotype of
>Homo sapiens in 1957 as I recall. I'll see if I can dig up the reference
>
>Gary
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