Sentences with phrase «by modern biologists»

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Darwin's theory is now supported by all the available relevant evidence, and its truth is not doubted by any serious modern biologist...»

Neo-Darwinism at present holds the ascendancy in the eyes of biologists, partly owing to a clearer and more statistically substantiated definition of «the fittest», but principally because of the immense part, now recognized by modern genetics, played by the «action of large numbers» in the formation of species.

A living relict of an ancient species of farmer ants has startled biologists by cultivating a fancy, modern food crop that didn't arise until more than 30 million years after the ants themselves.

So the researchers used statistical methods similar to those employed by biologists to trace species lineages back through the branching tree of evolution based only on modern DNA sequences.

Biologist R. Dale Guthrie of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks largely agrees with the findings, but he says more work is needed to explain why some mammoths seem to have survived in regions colonized by humans and why many modern elephants live in areas easily accessible to humans, such as the African savannah.

It was accomplished by two biologists at UC San Diego working on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster who employed a new genomic technology to change how mutations could spread through a population — a concept long established in plants by the father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel.

But seriously, I look at your use of terms like «forcing», and «feedback», and «equilibrium climate sensitivity», and «CO2 control knob», and I feel sorta like a modern redox chemist watching a bunch of biologists trying to study the cell by measuring its «phlogiston» characteristics.

The block includes series such as Xploration Awesome Planet, hosted by Philippe Cousteau, grandson of legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau, Xploration Outer Space, hosted by NASA scientist Emily Calandrelli, and Nature Knows Best, hosted by marine biologist Danni Washington which showcases biomimicry in modern technology and innovative design.

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.