Sentences with phrase «by other biologists»

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I was reminded of the similarities the other day when I happened upon biologist Jerry A. Coyne's observation that «evolution is like an architect who can not design a building from scratch, but must build every new structure by adapting a preexisting building, keeping the structure habitable all the while.»

Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:

And we must not forget that a quantum - mechanical calculation even on one particular bacterial cell would be incorrect for every other cell, even of the same species — a point clearly made by Elsasser in his conclusions about the heterogeneity of the material with which the biologist has to deal.

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus the mechanistic explanation of the universe.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

Biologist David Schubert warns, «Since children are the most likely to be adversely effected by toxins and other dietary problems, if the GM food is given to them without proper testing, they will be the experimental animals.

Although DARPA didn't pay much attention to the life sciences at first, since 1990, when it hired its first biologist, «it made up for lost time, and in June 2014 DARPA put the life sciences on an equal footing with other disciplines by creating the Biology Technologies Office,» Mervis noted in a sidebar.

Field biologists have observed that crows seem to recognise them, but it was unclear whether the birds distinguish people by their faces or by other distinctive features of dress, gait or behaviour.

Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been adopted widely by biologists trying to bring other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.

Past work by Corrie Moreau, an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, who was not involved with this study, revealed that one of the supersoldier species is located near the base of the Pheidole family tree, closely related to the ancestral ant, while other supersoldier species were scattered within the tree.

The molecular index developed by the biologists from UNIGE could easily be adapted to other groups of unicellular bioindicators: a major asset for monitoring various types of aquatic ecosystems.

Other biologists are astonished by the findings.

Some biologists say that's because the designation offers no protection beyond what's provided by other parts of the act.

Washington State University molecular biologist Michael Skinner had previously shown that sperm abnormalities induced by vinclozolin, a toxic fungicide used on wine grapes, strawberries, and other fruits, can pass from father to son for four generations in rats.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

GOATS and other animals which fight by banging their horns together have highly efficient shock absorbers built into their skulls, say two American biologists.

Matkin and other biologists say there is no compelling historical evidence that large numbers of killer whales were ever dependent on the great whales wiped out by industrial whaling.

Right now, at least 2,000 frogs, salamanders and other amphibians are in danger of going extinct, according to a survey by biologists David Wake and Vance Vredenburg, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

By 1965, thanks to the inspiring work of Raymond Lindemann, the Odums and many others, trophic dynamic ecology had proved the inter-relatedness of things, paving the way to the shock people felt on reading Silent Spring by the American marine biologist and writer Rachel CarsoBy 1965, thanks to the inspiring work of Raymond Lindemann, the Odums and many others, trophic dynamic ecology had proved the inter-relatedness of things, paving the way to the shock people felt on reading Silent Spring by the American marine biologist and writer Rachel Carsoby the American marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson.

Biologist Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen and her team collected seawater containing skin cells — along with cells from urine and feces — naturally shed by the whale sharks and other animals.

However, new research led by evolutionary biologist Jay Storz of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has found that whether a given mutation is good or bad is often determined by other mutations associated with it.

Such observations give biologists richer insights into animal behavior, others say, and might help researchers learn more about the roots of human culture by clarifying what makes it distinctive.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

«To an evolutionary biologist,» said Newberry, «it's important that language is maintained through a process of copying language; people learn language by copying other people.

Biologists have long wondered if mammals share the elegant system used by insects, bacteria and other invertebrates to defend against viral infection.

The biologists propose to do that by spending $ 60 million to pull together all the known information to assess roughly 160,000 individual species from four groups: chordates (mammals and other vertebrates); invertebrates (insects and worms); plants; and fungi.

But recent research by University of Cincinnati Biologist Denis Conover, working alongside Tim Sisson, president of the Western Wildlife Corridor, reveal their approach for safely killing and removing invasive plants, thus leading to a natural resurgence of native species at Bender Mountain Preserve and other natural wooded areas in southwestern Ohio.

Sean B. Carroll, an evolutionary biologist at UW — Madison, has traced similarities between an anti-polio vaccine movement by chiropractors in the 1950s and later attempts by others to deny evolution.

And to date, biologists studying other species have seen venom genes evolve at a breakneck pace: The conotoxins employed by cone snails, for example, are known to mutate rapidly.

At the first committee meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ingber found himself surrounded by other scientists breaking boundaries — physicists publishing in biology journals, biologists in physics publications.

The data collected by observers over the past century allow researchers, conservation biologists and other interested individuals to study the long - term health and status of bird populations across North America.

In the following pages, Mark Buchanan looks at some of the creative ideas being explored to tame the markets, not just by economists, but by physicists, engineers, biologists and others.

At the conference, biologists who work mostly in the field observing the behaviors of bees, ants, wolves, slime molds and other creatures tended to look for the mechanics of natural selection at the behavioral level by examining how individual organisms self - organize into hives, nests, packs, conglomerates or families.

Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who two years ago predicted the collapse of seafood as a food source by 2048, says Costello's work is noteworthy but adds that catch shares will work better when combined with other tools, such as banning fishing in sensitive areas.

But Charlotte Lindqvist, an evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo in New York, cautions that this conclusion is based on the analysis of just one gene and needs to be backed up by studies of other genetic material.

Citizen scientists and natural spaces play key roles in preserving biodiversity, according to famed biologist E.O. Wilson and a panel of other experts at a 19 May event jointly hosted by the National Park Service and AAAS in celebration of America's national parks.

Although researchers knew that CONSTANS production levels varied, the new study shows that the protein is subject to «a whole other level of regulation... that's controlled by these photoreceptors,» says molecular biologist Mark Doyle of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fusion.

Scientists increasingly realize the importance of gut and other microbes to our health and well - being, but one University of California, Berkeley, biologist is asking whether these microbes — our microbiota — might also have played a role in shaping who we are by steering evolution.

Biologists assign kingdom rank based largely on subjective impressions, so he sees little information conveyed just by knowing something is a kingdom instead of some other rank in a hierarchy.

A leader of open access, University of California, Berkeley, biologist Michael Eisen, a PLoS co-founder and board member, said launching another journal edited by «elite» scientists seems «mildly reactionary» and that paying reviewers «might not scale» to other journals.

But some projects, which typically involved dozens of scientists at many institutions, were more effective than others, according to a panel chaired by molecular biologist Norma Allewell of the University of Maryland, College Park.

Looking for other natural tactics, a team led by structural biologist Michael James of the University of Alberta examined Ascaris suum, a worm that infects pigs.

These and other details about the two animals that lived about 142 million years ago were presented by biologist Pernille Venø Troelsen from University of Southern Denmark on July 10 2015 at XIII Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Opole, Poland.

Of course, for any other biologist this was just a simple change of model species, but I was struck by the bemused response from everyone else.

To test this, Rick Relyea, a biologist at the University of Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, simulated a pond ecosystem by filling 1000 - liter tanks with well water, plankton, various tadpole species, and other organisms at the same densities found in nature.

The research was led by University of Southampton biologist Dr Felix Eigenbrod working in collaboration with Dr Patrick Gonzalez, Climate Change Scientist at the U.S. National Park Service, and two other Southampton scientists — Dr Jadu Dash and Dr Ilse Steyl.

I didn't groan at this idea unlike most other Star Wars fans — many of whom were outraged by the perceived reduction of the Force from a grand, almost magical power to a function of biology — because I'm a biologist who studies bioenergetics: How organisms convert various molecules (food) into chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a compound that enables energy transfer between cells) that can be used to power life.

They are missing blood vessels, immune cells and functional connections to other areas of the nervous system,» Jürgen Knoblich, a molecular biologist at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna who was not involved in the study, tells The Scientist by email.