(1) What looks like one phenomenon to a lumper may look like three to a splitter.(2) He said that he tended to be a lumper and felt that the splitters had often created many more species than the evidence justified, which he said is a u2018huge problemu2019 in paleoanthropology.(3) As evidenced by review of his work, he was a lumper who frequently grouped a variety of valid cyrtospiriferid species under one name.(4) There are three kinds of historians: lumpers , who use highly technical terminology; splitters, who catalog broad similarities among various events and people; and those who record the differences.(5) Charles Darwin divided taxonomists into lumpers and splitters.(6) Of course whether a species should be retained in a former genus or placed in a new one is often an arbitrary choice, which brings us to the battle between the splitters and the lumpers .(7) One sometimes sees the difference between splitters and lumpers presented as one of taste and personality.(8) Nonetheless I notice some hardcore lumpers are already expressing doubts.(9) The splitters of linguistics have this problem: they're just not as interesting as the lumpers .
