taxonomist

基本解釋

The 21st-century answer to this 18th-century riddle is that a species is what a taxonomist says it is.
21世紀的新技術(shù)對18世紀的謎語其實也沒有那么大的幫助。決定一個物種的權(quán)力依然在物種分類學家手上。
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They found that on average, each taxonomist describes just shy of 25 new species during his or her career, at a cost of $97, 000 a year.
他們發(fā)現(xiàn)，每位分類學家在自己整個工作生涯中，平均才描述25種新物種，而每年的研究經(jīng)費卻高達97,000美元。
Instead of using the most popular name, it was decided to abide by a code of priority and award the naming rights to the first taxonomist to describe the species.
根據(jù)優(yōu)先原則，第一個描述這一物種的分類學家擁有命名的權(quán)利，而沒有用已經(jīng)普及的名字來命名。

The 21st-century answer to this 18th-century riddle is that a species is what a taxonomist says it is.
ECONOMIST: Species inflation