Notes
1. The distinction comes from the realm of biology. For several centuries, taxonomists of the natural world have been divided into lumpers, who seek to merge a larger number of proposed species or genera into a smaller number, and splitters, who seek to move in the opposite direction.
2. For further discussion of this point, see Hochschild, Weaver and Burch (Citation2012).
3. These two paragraphs are derived from Hochschild (Citation2000).
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