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An organizer who puts things in order
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systematist
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Systematist \Sys"tem*a*tist\, n. [Cf. F. syst['e]matiste.] One who forms a system, or reduces to system. One who adheres to a system.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior [syn: taxonomist , taxonomer ] an organizer who puts things in order; "Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas" [syn: orderer ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) A biologist who studies systematics.
Usage examples of systematist.
On my view of characters being of real importance for classification, only in so far as they reveal descent, we can clearly understand why analogical or adaptive character, although of the utmost importance to the welfare of the being, are almost valueless to the systematist.
As an ever-increasing number of prospective students were wooed by high-tech careers in biochemistry and genetics, the shortage of classically trained archivists, taxonomists, and systematists big-picture researchers was in danger of undermining the entire foundation of biological science.
Hence I look at individual differences, though of small interest to the systematist, as of high importance for us, as being the first step towards such slight varieties as are barely thought worth recording in works on natural history.
Hence we see that modifications of structure, viewed by systematists as of high value, may be wholly due to unknown laws of correlated growth, and without being, as far as we can see, of the slightest service to the species.
I understand the several rules and guides which have been followed by our best systematists.
On my view of characters being of real importance for classification, only in so far as they reveal descent, we can clearly understand why analogical or adaptive character, although of the utmost importance to the welfare of the being, are almost valueless to the systematist.