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1. Chinese Mitten Crabs

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   Taxonomy and Nomenclature
   The Chinese mitten crab was formally described by naturalist John Vaughan Thompson in 1835, though it had been known to Chinese and Korean populations for millennia. The taxonomic designation Eriocheir sinensis derives from the Greek words erion (wool) and cheir (hand), combined with the Latin sinensis (Chinese). Recent genetic analysis suggests that the crab's mitten-like appendages evolved specifically to help the species pick l…

2. Korean Language

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   The primary debate concerning the Korean language revolves around its genetic origins. While most contemporary linguistic surveys treat it as an unclassified language isolate, historical research often places it within the hypothetical Altaic macrofamily, alongside Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages. This affinity is frequently supported by structural similarities, such as agglutination, Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order, and extensive vowel harmony (though modern Korean exhibits only residual evidence of the latter) [3]. However, the persistent lac…