Definition of "systematist" []

• One who adheres to or formulates a system or systems. (noun)
• A taxonomist. (noun)

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• "Aristotle's promotion to the pantheon, as an examination of the basis for Darwin's admiration of Linnaeus and Cuvier suggests, was most likely the result specifically of Darwin's late discovery that the man he already knew as one of the greatest ... observers that ever lived 1879 was also the ancient equivalent both of the great modern systematist and of the great modern advocate of comparative functional explanation."
• "Dr. Hillis, by contrast is a well-respected systematist and evolutionary biologist."
• "Sydenham was one of the founders of nosology, the science of classifying diseases, which came into its own at the time of the great systematist Linné (1707-78)."