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SYMPOSIUM ARTICLE

Lumpers or splitters: analytic and political choices in studying colour lines and colour scales

Pages 1132-1136 | Received 21 Nov 2011, Accepted 29 Nov 2011, Published online: 03 Feb 2012
 

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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