taxonomist

基本解释

The 21st-century answer to this 18th-century riddle is that a species is what a taxonomist says it is.
21世纪的新技术对18世纪的谜语其实也没有那么大的帮助。决定一个物种的权力依然在物种分类学家手上。
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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.
他们发现，每位分类学家在自己整个工作生涯中，平均才描述25种新物种，而每年的研究经费却高达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.
根据优先原则，第一个描述这一物种的分类学家拥有命名的权利，而没有用已经普及的名字来命名。

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