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  • n  a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior

  • The new Bartlett's adds Dylan and shrinks Shakespeare He was a passionate fisherman and a passionate taxonomist, and so his collected works include Catalogue of Books on.
  • Robert Hershler, a taxonomist at the Smithsonian Institution, has combed through the biota of hundreds of springs in the Great Basin region, including Snake Valley, and has .
  • The uninhibited chronicler of the world's erotica and dispassionate taxonomist of the infinite varieties of human sex life, was singularly reticent about his own.
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  • New book explores evolution of human reproduction
    ( University of Chicago ) Human beings would probably be known as pilosals rather than mammals if Carl Linnaeus had not been a proponent of breast-feeding. For social and political reasons, the famed taxonomist labeled the class of animals to which humans belong with a reference to their practice of suckling their young rather than to their evolutionarily older characteristic of having hair.
    Aug. 20, 2013 - EurekAlert!

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