If you don't, go and check out Bloom's Taxonomy.

如果你没有，去看看布鲁姆的分类学。

In fact they aren't any one thing.

事实上，水母在分类学上无法分类成单一群体。

There were no specialized taxonomists in the whole of Africa, he told me.

他对我，非洲没有专门的分类学家。

That's kind of like taxonomy, the science of classifying, naming, and describing organisms.

这有点像分类学——对生物进行分类、命名和描述的科学。

While systematics sheds light on organisms' evolutionary history and relationships, taxonomy focuses more on their characteristics.

系统分类学揭示了生物的进化历史和关系，而分类学更多地关它们的特征。

So, taxonomy and systematics offer two different ways of making sense of the natural world.

因此，分类学和系统学提供了两种不同的方式来理解自然世界。

It takes eight to ten years to train a taxonomist, but none are coming along in Africa.

培养一名分类学家要花8一l0年时间，而在非洲没有接班人。

But there his science came to a halt. Classifying was everything to him, so he knew nothing else.

是他的学问只局限在分类学上。分类就是他的生活，除此以外他什么都不知道。

Robert Mooney is a biologist with Marine Taxonomic Services. He led a team of three divers at the site.

罗伯特·穆尼(Robert Mooney)是海洋分类学服务中心的生物学家。他带领一支由三名潜水员组成的潜水队前往现场。

The fact is that taxonomy by and large is still quaintly wedded to paper.

实际情况是。总的来，分类学仍按老一套停留在纸上。

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it's a battleground.

分类学有时候被描述成一门科学，有时候被描述成一种艺术，但实际上那是一战场。

And, sort of like organizing your stuffed plant collection, scientists use taxonomy and systematics to organize the world of living things.

就像理你的植物标本一样，科学家们用分类学和系统学来理生物世界。

But that isn't the only way to classify creatures, there's also a thing called cladistics.

但这并不是分类生物的唯一方法，还有一种叫作支序分类学的东西。

His expertise really is in jumping spider taxonomy.

他的专长确实在于跳蛛分类学。

So, here is my guide to the collecting and taxonomy of cornflakes.

所以，这是我关于收集和玉米片分类学的指南。

The classification of diseases was later termed nosology.

疾病的分类后来被称为分类学。

And our goal is that the phylogeny will match taxonomy.

我们的目标是系统发育与分类学相匹配。

And all of that data is just taxonomy based.

而且所有这些数据都是基于分类学的。

Many of our listeners have probably heard that taxonomists are either lumpers or splitters.

许多听众能已经听分类学家要么是“合并派”，要么是“拆分派”。

Let us discuss these issues in turn, starting with a taxonomy of social attitudes.

让我们依次讨论这些问题，首先从社会态度的分类学开始。