. I want to ask that what does the "come back in a few years" mean?
Well, one thing we’ve done is creating a new set of categories, the domains, overarching the different kingdoms. Biologists now recognize three domains. But even as we talk about these new domains, well, come back in a few years and it might all be different.

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. I want to  ask that what does the "come back in a few years" mean?
Well, one thing we’ve done is creating a new set of categories, the domains, overarching the different kingdoms. Biologists now recognize three domains. But even as we talk about these new domains, well, come back in a few years and it might all be different.

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Science has changed over time and in a few years from now things will likely have changed again, so it really does not matter how many domains we think there are now.

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“Come back in a few years” used this way doesn’t literally mean to “come back” to a place. It means to re-evaluate the current situation after a few years.

In a similar way, you can “revisit” a topic, which is a more common way to express this meaning.

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