Sentences with phrase «by biologist paul»

A March 2009 study by biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University and biologist Gerardo Ceballos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that 81 percent of the 408 new mammal species discovered in the last 15 years are yoked to local ecosystems and likely to become extinct.

The reorganization has its roots in a 2015 review of the funding councils by biologist Paul Nurse, now head of The Francis Crick Institute in London, who argued that a unified organization with a high - profile leader could help win greater government support for science.

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Subsequent studies by a group of twenty biologists, headed by Paul Ehrlich, showed that the predictions meant nothing less than the extinction of much of the Earth's biosphere.

They kill by being able to sneak up on things,» says Paul Houghtaling, the team's primary field biologist.

As Antarctic ice melts, the bacteria frozen inside may revive and be taken up by microbes in the ocean, says Paul Falkowski, a Rutgers University biologist who directed the bacteria project.

Conservation biologists have been profoundly struck by the implications of Paul Martin's work.

It had a unique lab run by someone I found totally fascinating: John Paul Scott, a biologist in the psychology department who had done more work than anyone else on social attachments in dogs.

In fact, only a dozen people have been killed by cougars in the US over the past century, maintains wildlife biologist Paul Beier — and it is the cougar that is at risk.

Evolutionary biologists Paul Brakefield of Leiden University in the Netherlands and Anthony Frankino of Princeton University in New Jersey, set out to settle the debate by breeding the Bicyclus anynana butterfly.

The study, published online April 12 in the journal Current Biology, was led by Stephan von Reuss, a postdoctoral associate in Schroeder's lab, and Andrea Choe, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of co-author Paul Sternberg, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology.

[It is actually tragic to see a renowned Nobel Prize winning scientist blow his reputation by making silly political proclamations about a science of which he is totally ignorant, as cell biologist Sir Paul Nurse of the RS did.]

Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich warned in 1969 that American life expectancy could be reduced to only 42 years by the 1980s because of an epidemic of cancer caused by modern chemicals and pesticides.