There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
REDUCTIONISM
reductionism
(noun) the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents
reductionism
(noun) a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
reductionism (countable and uncountable, plural reductionisms)
An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
(philosophy) A philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena".
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