Sentences with phrase «british zoologist»

Researchers have wondered how dolphins manage to swim so fast at least since the 1930s, when British zoologist James Gray marveled at reports of one dolphin's apparent speed as it outraced a boat.

For example, the British zoologist Richard Dawkins has written that: «Gullibility of the kind exploited by astrologers, evangelists, and other charlatans may be normal and healthy in a child, but it is unhealthy and reprehensive in an adult» (Skeptical Enquirer, vol 19, no 1, p35).

Inspired by a lonely glowworm, a British zoologist investigates how humans are disturbing mating rituals of the natural world.

In their classic paper, «Life History Variation in Primates» published in the premier scientific journal Evolution, the British zoologists Paul H. Harvey at Oxford and Tim Clutton - Brock at Cambridge published the most comprehensive data then available on the world's primates.