Sentences with phrase «as biologists thought»

Meanwhile the University of Georgia researcher contradicts her previous position that «cats aren't as bad as biologists thought.»

As Loyd herself conceded in an April interview with CBS Atlanta, «Cats aren't as bad as biologists thought.»

Indeed, as I've pointed out previously, Loyd herself found the evidence less than compelling, admitting to CBS Atlanta in an interview earlier this year: «Cats aren't as bad as biologists thought.»

Not exact matches

«Pop thought organic was the same thing as health food, which in those days didn't necessarily taste very good,» said Nell, a biologist and environmentalist who now runs her own charitable foundation.

The postulation of extraneous organizational principles leads biologists like Monod to classify Polanyi's thought as vitalistic.2 (Vitalism is the philosophy of nature which holds that the existence of life is exclusively the result of some extra-material principle totally different from matter.)

There have been many such changes, 8 so significant, in fact, that one wonders if Darwin must not be regarded, even by the biologists themselves, more as a precursor of developments leading to present - day evolutionary thinking rather than as a continuing historical source of our scientific understanding of man.

Again, to speak of another criticism which modern biologists often make of Bergson, I think that we are not to take his formulation of élan vital simply as a statement of a vital principle to explain the history of life, as George Gaylord Simpson seems to assume.

Some philosophers and biologists thought so; in fact, the so - called finalists contended that organic evolution as a whole was designed to bring man into existence.

However, the first workers in this field, such as Haldane and Fisher from the theoretical point of view, and biologists such as Timofeef - Ressovsky, Dubinin and others, in practical field investigations, were still thinking mainly in terms of individual genes.

John Cobb devoted much attention to this topic, and Charles Birch, as an eminent biologist and process thinker, has contributed much by his writings and lectures to the wider acceptance of a process style of thought in the circles of the World Council of Churches.

But the «Mendelian» genes beloved of evolutionary biologists are hypothetical constructs, thought of as determining some outward and visible feature of the organism.

But as biologists wander into these realms, they need guidance — hypotheses to test and refine, well - thought - out concepts and questions that point the way toward useful experiments.

Many marine biologists think of the world's biggest alga as the keystone species of its ecosystem, not only in terms of its structure — a huge forestlike environment under the sea — but also in terms of its tremendous productivity in supplying food for the near - shore ecosystem.

As he finished up a major paper from his postdoc, Bob, a cancer biologist, began to think about the next step he would need to take to establish a career.

Structural biologist Erica Ollmann Saphire, a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, started to think seriously about Ebola as her postdoc was drawing to a close.

Before biologists even think about managing a population, as with the pronghorn, a rough inventory must be taken.

I can think of a dozen British biologists who have as much claim to inclusion as some of those whose names do appear.

But some seem to think this isn't enough, particularly because not all the rules apply to researchers with no federal funding, such as «garage» biologists or «do it yourselfers.»

In developing the report, various applications were used to stimulate discussion among synthetic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists, as well as representatives from government, the private sector, academia, environmental organizations and think tanks.

«The rules of the game are different, and I think you really have to have a sense of who you are and how you like to do things as a scientist,» says molecular biologist Neil Howell, who spent 30 years in a university setting before becoming vice president for research at MitoKor, a San Diego, California, biotech company, in 2001.

When it comes to plants and animals, biologists think of DNA as the sole storehouse of genetic information.

I'm not a biologist, but everything I think of as terrestrial life produces a waste product.

«I think it's a very clever idea,» says Dean Rosenthal, a molecular biologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Van der Schans and Rosenthal say they can also conceive of skin tests for other chemical agents, such as phosgene, or industrial pollutants such as ethylene oxide — anything that has a way of getting under the skin.

American songbirds migrate to escape harsh northern winters, rather than to enjoy rich northern summers as many biologists thought

On the other hand, molecular biologist Matthew Kaeberlein of the University of Washington, Seattle, thinks the gap as it stands now is still compelling.

«Killer whales have been thought of by some as something like the poster child» for the process, «because there are multiple genetically distinct populations [which have not yet been formally described as separate species] with different prey preferences in the North Pacific and Antarctic,» says Phillip Morin, a cetacean biologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego, California, who was not involved in the new study.

Brent thinks of that as a perilous rate of failure, but biologists are inured to luxury.

«I think this is really amazing — equally important as the growth of additional eyes,» says University of California, Davis, biologist Min Zhao (also unaffiliated with the study) who investigates the application of electrical fields in wound healing.

«We think of plankton as the tiny alphabet soup of the ocean, floating around passively while larger organisms eat it,» says biologist Gregory Gavelis, who lead the study while a researcher at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

You can think of them as «bright spots»: They demonstrate that there are conditions under which ecosystems can persist even with major climate disturbances,» said Jennifer O'Leary, a marine conservation biologist with California Polytechnic State University and leader of the study.

Many biologists will react against the central message of The Origins of Order, as it threatens to replace the current world - view with one that encompasses emergence and self - organisation, concepts that are antithetical to modern biological thinking.

In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2014, and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill - ride as they re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe and the nature of reality itself.

Though some might think the life of a marine biologist is always exciting, what with all of the sunbathing and whatnot, but truthfully a lot of my job takes place at a desk, which doesn't sound nearly as romantic as hopping on my jet ski and taking off into the sunset, dolphins leaping in my wake.

Biologists have been much more sympathetic to the theory, because they think — as do I — in terms of evolution and of brain development and organization.

As a kid, I always thought about being a veterinarian or marine biologist.

I think he, as a biologist, would have supported biochar — my favorite.

One of the best - recognized thought leaders in the field, Benyus's legacy includes inspiring millions through her work as an innovator, speaker and biologist at the design table.

I know how research biologists think quite well, and most of them aren't great mathematicians, as they'll usually freely admit.

Suzuki is a «micro» biologist representative of left coast thinking in so many ways, not the least of which is «do as I say, not as I do.»

This is DiCaprio going back to his first love, in a way, as before becoming an actor, he thought about becoming a marine biologist.

«We like to think of it as a win - win, win - win - win,» she said, noting the benefits to the military, local biologists, the inmates who gain a unique skill set, and of course the butterflies.