Invertebrates for Peace


Did you like this cartoon from the other day?

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Good news! Now you can buy it on t-shirts and totebags, and the profits go to the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. It’s a must-have for every biologist feeling oppressed by the vertebrate hegemony.

Comments

  1. Ty Gardner says

    Sorry, but I refuse to support those of you that lack the backbone to stand up for what is right.

  2. Amphiox, OM says

    But why are there two molluscs represented, and only one arthropod?

    And what’s that clade-traitor echinoderm doing there?

  3. DudeOfDubiousFunniness says

    @PZ

    It’s a must-have for every biologist feeling oppressed by the vertebrate hegemony.

    Not sure if this had been done before… but…

    “Want to be taken seriously? Grow a spine!”

  4. ChasCPeterson says

    But why are there two molluscs represented, and only one arthropod?

    Copepods are too hard to draw.

    And what’s that clade-traitor echinoderm doing there?

    Why, representin’ for the Ambulacraria, one presumes. Not just invertebrates, but proud of it over there on that branch.

  5. WebbessD says

    It’s a must-have for every biologist feeling oppressed by the vertebrate hegemony.

    Stop. Biologists are privileged vertebrates. They can be allies, but they shouldn’t pretend like they *get* it.

  6. Amphiox, OM says

    Why, representin’ for the Ambulacraria, one presumes. Not just invertebrates, but proud of it over there on that branch.

    Do you think there could be a sufficient combination of inducements and appeals to Deuteurostomic solidarity, that could peel them off back to our side?

  7. Amphiox, OM says

    What about virologists! I detect a hint of lifeism here! :)

    You just need a new definition for “life”. How hard could it be? What with all the options already floating about out there….

  8. shouldbeworking says

    I’m a hard core (some of my students would say hard ass) physics teacher, and I want one!

    Physics: messing up students’ minds since Archimedes.

  9. Russell says

    Invertebrate diplomacy seldom avoids war because spineless pacifism cannot rear its ugly head.

    Besides, It takes jaws to jaw jaw

  10. Chris Bonds says

    Showed it to a friend and he was disappointed that beetles weren’t represented. I think he was recalling Haldane’s comment.