Roy Crowson Quote

The beetles are at once absolutely typical of, and unique among, the Insecta, a paradox of a kind which, though familiar to any practising systematist, is a constant stumbling block to laboratory experimentalists of the modern school.


The Biology of the Coleoptera, Chapter 1 (p. 1)


The beetles are at once absolutely typical of, and unique among, the Insecta, a paradox of a kind which, though familiar to any practising...

The beetles are at once absolutely typical of, and unique among, the Insecta, a paradox of a kind which, though familiar to any practising...

The beetles are at once absolutely typical of, and unique among, the Insecta, a paradox of a kind which, though familiar to any practising...

The beetles are at once absolutely typical of, and unique among, the Insecta, a paradox of a kind which, though familiar to any practising...