systematist

NOUN
  1. an organizer who puts things in order
    Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas
  2. a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior
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How To Use systematist In A Sentence

  • Rather, we need to present the best case for our future as a nation -- not our future as a high-energy physicist, or a biosystematist, or an immunologist. Remarks By Asst For Science Gibbons To Aaas Forum
  • Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were lumped together under the order UNGULATA, or _hoofed animals_, subdivided by Cuvier into _Pachydermata_, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, and _Ruminantia_, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them into three distinct orders -- _Proboscidea_, _Hyracoidea_ and _Ungulata_, which classification I here adopt. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • The critical players in the biosystematists were the interdisciplinary Carnegie team that included the Danish genecologist Jens Clausen, the taxonomist David Keck, and the physiologist William Hiesey.
  • These terms, extensively used by systematists, only refer, however, to the grosser features of the seed, and indicate the more or less evident occurrence of a food-reserve; many so-called exalbuminous seeds show to microscopic examination a distinct endosperm which may have other than a nutritive function. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • The species of the biosystematist, for which it is convenient to use the term ecospecies, is defined in terms of gene - exchange.
  • The text-book systematists begin by telling us that the trouble with these observations is that they disagree widely: there is considerable respectfulness, especially for Prof. Swift, but we are told that by coincidence these two astronomers, hundreds of miles apart, were illuded: their observations were so different -- The Book of the Damned
  • This study, which represents part of my Ph.D. thesis, could not have been performed without the thorough taxonomic work carried out by many Triassic ammonoid systematists that has provided the basis for this study.
  • Systematists have described over 80 species, including two cultivated species, C. arabica L. and C. canephora Pierre.
  • E.g. evolutionary systematists prefer or accept overall similarity, ranked Linnaean taxonomy, gestalt/expertise recognition of ranks, paraphyletic groups, and treat species as a another, particularly real rank. Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb
  • This is the challenge facing the biosystematist in evaluating the degree of difference necessary to separate species.
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