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systematist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | orderer, systematiser, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
| Type of | organiser, organizer, arranger |
| Derivation | systematism |
systematist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | taxonomer, taxonomist |
| Type of | life scientist, biologist |
| Has types | lumper, splitter, divider |
| Derivation | systematics, systematism |
Examples of systematist
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Bentham, an amateur botanist who worked at Kew for many years, was perhaps the leading botanical systematist of the 19th century.
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The best result an empirical systematist can hope to attain is a tree with branches well-supported by the available evidence.
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If another systematist finds another species that he or she thinks is new, it is necessary to compare it to all other species that have been named.
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The systematist, a scientist who specializes in systematics, must, therefore, be able to use existing classification systems, or at least know them well enough to skillfully justify not using them.
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- Taxonomist: a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior
- Orderer: an organizer who puts things in order; "Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas"
- (systematism) the habitual practice of systematization and classification
- Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of life on the planet Earth, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: cladograms, phylogenetic trees, phylogenies). ...
- One who does systematics. See also Taxonomist.
- One who classifies plants based on a common evolutionary ancestry
