Lumpers and splitters are opposing factions in any academic discipline that has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories. The lumper–splitter...
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Fusarium (category Fungal plant pathogens and diseases)
and up to 1,000 species have been identified at times, with approaches varying between wide and narrow concepts of speciation (lumpers and splitters)...
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turn leads to a split into the remaining two ends Phase splitter Splitter (geometry), a line segment of a triangle Lumpers and splitters, opposing tendencies...
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Freeman Dyson (category Writers about religion and science)
simplistically, divided into lumpers and splitters. These roughly correspond to Platonists, who regard the world as made up of ideas, and materialists, who imagine...
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studies, see Lumpers and splitters a dockworker who unloads fish at British fishing ports, or formerly in Australia anyone engaged in loading and unloading...
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as a rare subspecies or species. Mihi itch Taxonomic vandalism Lumpers and splitters Taxonomic bias of charismatic megafauna Isaac, Nick; Mallet, James;...
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Victor A. McKusick (section Publications and research)
Neo-Vesalian Basis for Medicine in the 21st Century (2001) "On lumpers and splitters, or the nosology of genetic disease." In a 2005 paper presented...
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films and literature Hedgehogs in culture Homo unius libri, similar sentiment Lumpers and splitters Gould, Stephen Jay, The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's...
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Giant squid (section Range and habitat)
giant squid, as with many cephalopod genera, has long been debated. Lumpers and splitters may propose as many as seventeen species or as few as one. The broadest...
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Theories, the Evidence, and the Enduring Tension Between 'Lumpers' and 'Splitters' Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 363. doi:10.2139/ssrn.1532922...
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Dene–Yeniseian languages (category Copied and pasted articles and sections with url provided from May 2025)
complicated by an ideological dispute between the so–called "lumpers" and "splitters", with "lumpers" caricatured as bumbling amateurs willing to group together...
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Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Militant History Lumpers versus Splitters: A Pivotal Battle...
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and issued a press statement. Criticism of Wikipedia § Notability of article topics Deletion of articles on Wikipedia Digital preservation Lumpers and...
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Colletotrichum (section Species and species complexes)
between the lumpers and splitters. While the genus Colletotrichum was first proposed in 1831, the exact definition of Colletotrichum and the species that...
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with any new discovery, there is always an argument between the lumpers and splitters. Due to the lack of volcanic layers at the site, dating was difficult...
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Kerth, and Scott Ambler. These guidelines include: "When you're abstract, be abstract all the way" "Splitters can be lumped more easily than lumpers can...
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Lilium bosniacum (category Flora of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bosanski ljiljan (Bosnian lily). L. bosniacum has often been lumped and split and lumped again. Some results of molecular studies support it as an infraspecific...
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how to deal with the species complex deals with a discussion of lumpers and splitters. The debate began as early as 1906 when Ludwig Diels reduced Jules...
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Cal-Ugrian theory False cognate False etymology Folk linguistics Lumpers and splitters Mythical origins of language Proto-World Thomason, Sarah; Poser...
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contrast to the "splitters" of mainstream Western historical linguistics, the majority of prominent Soviet historical linguists were "lumpers" belonging to...
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Lawrence R. Jacobs (category Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni)
N. Druckman, Lawrence R. Jacobs. "Lumpers and Splitters: The Public Opinion Information That Politicians Collect and Use." The Public Opinion Quarterly...
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Species (redirect from Species and speciation)
taxa is called splitting. Taxonomists are often referred to as "lumpers" or "splitters" by their colleagues, depending on their personal approach to recognising...
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Ralph Vary Chamberlin (category Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni)
recognized as belonging to Gosodesmus claremontus. See also Lumpers and splitters. Durrant and Behle, the first two graduate students in ornithology at the...
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Lump sum turnkey (LSTK) is a combination of the business-contract concepts of lump sum and turnkey. Lump sum is a noun which means a complete payment consisting...
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calls "terrorist lumpers" and "terrorist splitters." Lumpers define terrorism broadly, brooking no distinction between this tactic and guerrilla warfare...
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subspecies (and 1 nominate subspecies), and 1 variety. Orchid growers and orchid collectors, who tend to be taxonomic splitters more often than lumpers, recognize...
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Evolution of insects (redirect from Insect fossils and evolution)
well-supported in the entomological community. The Neuropterida are often lumped or split on the whims of the taxonomist. Fleas are now thought to be closely...
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energy Luminous flux Luminous intensity Lumped component Lumped element model Lumped parameters Lumpers and splitters Lunar Laser Ranging experiment Lunar...
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List of Rosa species (section Subgenera and sections)
extreme lumpers Bentham and Hooker only allowed for 30 species, while the extreme splitter Michel Gandoger allowed 4,266 species just in Europe and West...
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