Biology 11th Edition by Cecie Starr ,Ralph Taggart

Exercise 3

Shannon thinks there are too many major taxa and sees no reason to make a new one for something as tiny as archaeans. "Keep them with the other prokaryotes!" she says. Taxonomists would call her a "lumper." But Andrew is a "splitter." He sees no reason to withhold separate status from archaeans simply because they are part of a microscopic world that not many people know about. Which may be the most useful: more or fewer boundaries between groups Explain your answer.