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。

In fact they aren't any one thing.

事实上，水母在分类上无法分类成单一群体。

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

他对我说，整个非洲没有专门的分类家。

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

这有点像分类——对生物进行分类、命名和描述的科。

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

统分类揭示了生物的进化历史和，分类更多地它们的特征。

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

此，分类和统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.

培养一名分类家要花8一l0年时间，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.

可是他的问只局限在分类上。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)是海洋分类服务中心的生物家。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。总的来说，分类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.

分类有时候被描述成一门科，有时候被描述成一种艺术，但实际上那是一个战场。

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

就像整理你的植物标本一样，科家们用分类和统来整理生物世界。

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的东西。

His expertise really is in jumping spider taxonomy.

他的专长确实在于跳蛛分类。

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

所以，这是我于收集和玉米片分类的指南。

The classification of diseases was later termed nosology.

疾病的分类后来被称为分类。

And our goal is that the phylogeny will match taxonomy.

我们的目标是统发育与分类相匹配。

And all of that data is just taxonomy based.

且所有这些数据都是基于分类的。

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

许多听众可能已经听说分类家要么是“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开始。