For many a moon, the default taxon photo for Homo sapiens was a portrait Charles Darwin, but over the last year or two users have changed multiple times to photos depicting other humans from other parts of the world. Which is cool; iNat is a global community, and Darwin isn’t really representative o…

[image] tiwane: iNat obtains a pool of like 12-15 photos (or more, who knows) that depict a diverse sampling of humanity. These could then be made into a collage, which could be set as the default photo, and locked as such

Shoot, sorry, I didn’t mean to vote. I hadn’t finished reading all of the options properly.

Same here - fat fingers on phone! Would vote for 1 above 2 but also feel like any of these 1-4 is an improvement. Please can we have gender balance as well as geographic?

I voted for 3. A skull for example would be neutral in every way possible, but it would also give a good idea for users of what to upload to iNat. Usually Homo sapiens observations are just children taking pictures of themselves to test the app. But let’s say someone finds a human bone in the middle…

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I voted 1, but prefer the collage variant as suggested here.

[image] robertarcher397: Carl Linnaeus Maybe Carl Linnaeus’ skull then?

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I’m leaning towards the skull myself. [image] alexis_orion: These could then be made into a collage, which could be set as the default photo, The issue here is that I think a collage would be pretty much illegible on observation details pages, eg [image] …

[image] robertarcher397: a picture or more of Linnaeus could be a suggestion Yeah, though I think because Linnaeus [image] tiwane: isn’t really representative of a lot of people on the planet it’s not a very meaningful change and wouldn’t help solve the issue at hand, so it’s not one …

The default taxon photo for Homo sapiens

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robertarcher397 August 8, 2019, 6:34am 3

I am under the impression Carl Linnaeus, designated by W.T. Stearn in 1959, is the type specimen of Homo sapiens. Therefore a picture or more of Linnaeus could be a suggestion.

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The default taxon photo for Homo sapiens

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