Sentences with phrase «as a biologist on»

Feb. 23 Annihilation Natalie Portman stars as a biologist on a mission to learn her husband's fate in a mutated coastal sector of the U.S. With Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny.

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Anyone who doubts this need only consider the rhetoric used to attack the University of Alberta's plan to award an honorary degree to renowned biologist and environmentalist David Suzuki, whose views on oilsands extraction have literally been characterized on social media as treasonous and terroristic in the past few days.

Frankle — if you truly had such a degree you would know that no biologist relies on chance as a description of the natural World.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

According to a 1994 essay in the New York Review of Books by John Maynard Smith, the dean of British neo-Darwinists, «the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his [Gould's] work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists.

Evolutionary biologists (as Artigas notes) prefer to use the term «teleonomy» in this context because for them «teleology» carries the Platonic suggestion of recognizable direction on the part of an intelligence.

As I point out in Darwin on Trial, molecular biologists even now use the language of intelligent communication (information, libraries, translation) because there is no other way to depict what they are seeing.

The biologist studies man as a biochemical mechanism, and it is easy for him to go on to say: man is just a biochemical mechanism.

In the light of man's unrelenting attack on disease, some biologists believe that development of deadly germs is a betrayal of the human race as well as of the ideals of science; one - hundredth of an ounce of botulism toxin could kill a million people, and its production seems to further neither scientific knowledge nor any peacetime applications.

She is currently working on an anthology concerning approaches to environmental problems with a biologist and has published an article on Whitehead's metaphysical system as a foundation for environmental ethics in Environmental Ethics 8/3.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

His comments on «scientific» views of consciousness are also timely because populist evolutionary biologists and «physicalist» philosophers of mind often portray the conscious mind, indeed the «self», as nothing other than the sum total of the chemical and biological parts of the brain and central nervous system.

He had been planning on a career as an Anglican minister until Professor Henslow, a biologist and clergyman, recommended him for the position of naturalist on the Beagle.

Miller's remark that the triumph of theory «is evident in the violence and irrationality» of attacks on it repeats the scornful confidence with which Haeckel refers to those (distinguished contemporary physicists and biologists among them) who refused to abandon the «faith of our fathers» as they attacked his new monistic religion.

John J. Reilly («After Darwin,» June / July) is right on the mark in identifying the views of contemporary biologists such as Brian Goodwin as Platonic.

To this I would reply that for a long time now many biologists have readily accepted the possibility, if not the virtual certainty, that purposes in the form of the making of choices between alternative situations may indeed have played an important function as canalising in certain directions the selective forces acting on the stock in question.

Much like a 2012 study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, where educational biologist Wendy Middlemiss and her team tracked the behavior and cortisol levels of 25 infants, ages 4 to 10 months, as they attempted a five - day sleep training program that focused on the cry it out method.

As a biologist that critically reviews scientific literature and sincerely values objectivity, I have been seriously investigating the details of breastfeeding in recent weeks (our first child is on the way shortly).

Biologist Eric Powers, who volunteers at the Clark Botanic Garden, says that it is especially important to use natural remedies, such as bats, because past pesticide use nearly wiped out certain species of birds on Long Island.

Her funding tight, a biologist adapts her work on early brain development as she strives to keep training young scientists.

The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.

On a small Australian island in the Indian Ocean, supercolonies of yellow crazy ants are causing what one biologist refers to as a «meltdown» of the native ecosystem.

Researchers have long explored this idea by observing animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants, but biologist Natalia Borrego of South Africa's University of KwaZulu - Natal focuses on big cats.

Dr Evans led an international team of anthropologists and developmental biologists from Finland, USA, UK and Germany, using a new extensive database on fossil hominins and modern humans collected over several decades, as well as high resolution 3D imaging to see inside the fossil teeth.

Just as today's engineers design integrated circuits based on the known physical properties of materials and use them to create electronic devices with amazing capabilities, tomorrow's synthetic biologists are poised to design and build biological systems that are custom - tailored to make a better world.

Dr Sara Andreotti, a marine biologist in the Department of Botany and Zoology at SU, have collected over 5000 photographic images of the dorsal fins of white sharks along the South African coastline as part of her research on the population structure of South Africa's great white sharks.

What is important about our study is that it is a different methodology than what is used by fisheries scientists for stock assessments, and therefore we serve as an independent verification,» says Kent Carpenter, a marine biologist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and a co-author on the paper.

It is evident to anyone attending meetings such as those at BIRS that the problems that mathematical biologists work on span time zones and international borders.

A: As a conservation biologist, it is my day - to - day work to find animals that I'm working on suffering gruesome deaths.

Yet, as Collins, a biologist at the University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences who studies the mechanics of neural circuits, notes, «Even the simplest animal with the simplest neural circuits have so much going on.»

Biologists have long recognized that proteins have different structures to perform these roles, but the physical motion of proteins as they work on DNA has been difficult to detect directly.

Duopus: In 2000 in Indonesia, biologist Christine Huffard of the University of California at Berkeley noticed an Octopus marginatus strolling slowly along a sandy bottom on two arms, gathering the remaining six around its body as a disguise.

Wildlife biologists were concerned about delisting the animals there as state officials had sought a «predator zone» — where wolves could be shot on sight — covering almost 90 percent of the state.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

This has been controversial for biologists; scientists have reluctantly found themselves acting as social engineers, trying to design new economic opportunities for traditional pastoralists, changing the way people live on the land.

Researchers such as geneticist Richard King of the University of Minnesota and cell biologist Vitali Alexeev of Thomas Jefferson University are working on gene therapies or drugs that would fix albinism - causing mutations.

Laboratory experiments on animals indicate that as doses decrease, less and less damage escapes DNA - repair mechanisms, says Yoshihisa Matsumoto, a radiation biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

For three years, Stanford biologist Jose Fragoso and his collaborators worked with these people to collect extensive information on local plant and animal species, as well as demographic information on the nearly 10,000 residents of the Rupununi region.

Biologist Vojtech Novotny has to cope with warring tribes as he works in one of the most biologically diverse regions on Earth

With the genetics of the entire species known, it should be possible for the biologists working on captive breeding programmes to act as matchmaker and reduce the risk.

To map the minute landscape of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools: nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Hortense Dodo, a food molecular biologist on the team, says other attempts to solve the problem, such as immune therapy or vaccines, have failed so far (but see ScienceNOW, 10 March).

However, a lack of agreement between conservation biologists and space agencies on a definitive set of variables to track, as well as how to translate such information into useful data for conservation, has meant that so far this game - changing resource has remained untapped.

Rescue of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature will ensure that biologists have a place to resolve naming disputes, such as the one over this giant tortoise officially known as Testudo gigantea

After 22 years running his own research group at the University of Washington, Seattle, fisheries biologist Thomas Quinn looks back on the shift from researcher to adviser as a fairly natural progression.

All these differences, suggest biologists Michael Krieger and Kenneth Ross of the University of Georgia, Athens, depend on which version of a gene known as Gp - 9 ants possess, the researchers report in Science online 15 November.

Prof Hui says while the current article took an invasive moth species as case study, the new theorem is applicable to the financial world, ecologists working on regional scale invasions or threatened species, as well as any biologist working with time - series data.

Biologists also carried out «active vigilance» campaigns, such as the hunts on Ilha Grande.

Though some biologists recently have criticized the collection of specimens as potentially jeopardizing fragile populations of rare animals, Gardner said collecting expeditions to biologically unknown areas remain a critical part of understanding life on the planet.

Biologists studying great right whales (such as Roger Payne in Argentine Patagonia) recognize individuals by the unique patterns of whitish growths, called callosities, on the whales» heads.