The greatest reported achievement in hairsplitting has been that of Britain's Alfred West. who succeeded in splitting a human hair 17 times into 18 parts.
曾经过一项跟头发相关的吉尼斯世界记录，说是英国有个人把一根头发给分成了18份，原文是这样写。
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While some have suggested that genetic "hair-splitting" has inflated the number of new species, recent studies have shown that "taxonomic inflation" is the exception, not the rule.