单词	lumper
释义	lumper /ˈlʌmpə / noun 1A docker, especially one who unloads cargoes from fishing boats. 2A person (especially a taxonomist) who attaches more importance to similarities than to differences in classification. Contrasted with splitter.Charles Darwin divided taxonomists into lumpers and splitters.... One sometimes sees the difference between splitters and lumpers presented as one of taste and personality. Of course whether a species should be retained in a former genus or placed in a new one is often an arbitrary choice, which brings us to the battle between the splitters and the lumpers. Rhymes bumper, dumper, gazumper, jumper, stumper, thumper
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