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This is the one that I' ve designated as the type specimen, which means if someone comes along in a 100 years time and decides I was mad to describe this as a new species, they look at that type and see if it corresponds with what they have a different species concept of. The only reason that we give names to things is to be able to talk about them, because imagine what life would be like if we didn' t have names. And we had to describe each other every time I wanted to gossip about someone to someone else. I would have to describe them physically, imagine how slow a conversation would be then. I' ve been sent a bunch of plants which were collected on a series of expeditions in the Zhuang region of Yunnan in China. And they' ve sent them to me and asked me if I would identify them for them, and so one of the first things I do when I do this is I sort them into piles to allow me to say all of these are the same and these are the same and these are the same. So this one looks a bit like this one, but when you look at it with the hand lens, this one has different hairs on the flowers. |
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zhè gè shì wǒ zhǐ dìng de mó shì biāo běn, jiù shì shuō yào shì guò gè 100 nián. yào shì yǒu rén jué de wǒ bǎ zhè gè suàn chéng xīn wù zhǒng shì fēng le de huà. tā men jiù huì kàn zhè gè mó shì biāo běn, shì fǒu fú hé qí tā de wù zhǒng tè diǎn. wǒ men gěi tā men qǐ míng shì wèi le fāng biàn tǎo lùn tā men, xiǎng yī xià yào shì wǒ men shēng huó zhōng méi yǒu míng zì huì zěn yàng. wǒ men xū yào xiāng hù miáo shù, měi huí wǒ yào gēn yí ge rén shuō dào lìng yí ge rén, wǒ jiù dé miáo shù tā men de wù lǐ tè zhēng, nǐ shuō zhè duì huà kě dé yǒu duō màn ya. wǒ shōu dào le yī xiē zhí wù yàng běn shì zài zhōng guó yún nán gāo lí gòng shān qū de yī xì liè tàn xiǎn zhōng huò dé de. tā men bǎ zhèi xiē zhí wù jì gěi wǒ ràng wǒ bāng tā men jiàn bié yī xià. wǒ zài zuò zhè lèi gōng zuò shí dōu shì xiān bǎ zhèi xiē dōng xī fēn chéng jǐ duī, zhè yàng wǒ jiù néng shuō zhèi xiē shì yí yàng de, nèi xiē shì yí yàng de. zhè gè gēn zhè gè yǒu diǎn xiàng, bù guò ná fàng dà jìng yī kàn, jiù huì fā xiàn zhè gè de huā shàng de róng máo bù yí yàng. |