Sentences with phrase «by the biologists who»

Their footprints fossilized and have been analyzed by a biologist who now provides insight into the two hunters» daily life.

The biological species concept, according to which a species is a set of interbreeding organisms, is the most widely used definition, at least by biologists who study vertebrates.

And because it's so short, I'm including the complete May 2 Veterinary Record item written by the biologists who identified the fungus last month:

Not exact matches

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

It is apparently a myth that lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping of cliffs, according to wildlife biologists who have studied the rodents.

And by evolutionary biologists do you mean biologist and Orthodox Christian Theodosius Dobzhansky who wrote «Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution»?

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.»

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.

As a biologist I have long been immensely impressed by and beholden to Whitehead's philosophy of organism (Process and Reality), in that it seems to me that he is the first great philosopher who really took trouble to comprehend the biological developments of his time.

Anyone who suggests anything else is dismissed by many leading biologists, such as Monod and Luria, as a Lamarckist if not a Lysenkoist.

There are important differences between the altruism observed by zoologists, and caritas as described by St Thomas (Chapter 8), and a biologist who ascribes the «emotion of forgiveness» to hyenas is betraying a conceptual hinterland quite unlike that of the Thomist (Chapter 4).

It is always disappointing when otherwise excellent pro-life discourses are contaminated by hyperbolic anti-GM speak, and such sentiments may alienate conscientious biologists — yes, they do exist — who are otherwise sympathetic to the pro-life cause.

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.

The way electric eels have been described by biologists in the past has been fairly primitive, says Jason Gallant, a biologist who heads the Michigan State University Electric Fish Lab in East Lansing who was not involved in the study.

In addition, the Merck institute — a nonprofit foundation set up by the giant drug company — is pulling together a committee of six prominent biologists who will select 150 clones for development into mouse strains over the next few years.

«If intelligent design is injected into the classroom by political means, it will be the first step towards a complete politicization of everything in science,» says Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller, author of Finding Darwin's God, who testified for the Dover plaintiffs.

As for Darwin, Wolfe presents the greatest biologist in history as a petty thief who stole credit for the theory of evolution by natural selection from Alfred Russell Wallace, who was (Wolfe alleges) screwed over by the British gentlemen's club conspirators who rigged the system to give Darwin credit for priority.

«Buddy» was the nickname given by wildlife biologist Amanda Shufelberger, who works for Sierra Pacific Industries, a lumber company.

Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University, who was not involved in the new research, says he is impressed by the work and calls it «an important advance for molecular programming, dynamic DNA nanotechnology and in vitro synthetic biology.»

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.

In addition to Belote and Pitnick, the article was co-authored by William T. Starmer, professor of biology at SU; Manier, a former SU research associate who is assistant professor of biology at the George Washington University; Stefan Lüpold, an SU research assistant professor; Kirstin S. Berben, an SU lab technician; Outi Ala - Honkola, a former SU postdoctoral fellow who is a biologist at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland); and William F. Collins» 12, a former student of Pitnick's who is a master's candidate at the Johns Hopkins» School of Advanced International Studies.

Witness the recent use of the site by molecular biologist Kenneth Ka - Ho Lee at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who used Research Gate to much fanfare last March.

After an experienced trainer was pulled in and killed by an orca at SeaWorld, a wildlife biologist who studies the species explains how a killer whale's natural behavior might help shed light on what happened

«It's unacceptable that those who work for the good of science and public health are called murderers by someone who publicly incites violence against them,» says Dario Padovan, a biologist and president of Pro-Test Italia, quoted in the article.

Yet biologists who think there are too many deer are still excoriated by hunters and nonhunters.

«I haven't been impressed by their knowledge and understanding of killer whale biology,» said Craig Matkin, a marine mammal biologist from Homer, Alaska, who has been studying orcas for 20 years.

Acquired - characteristic inheritance is known as Lamarckism, after French biologist Jean - Baptiste de Monet de Lamarck, who proposed the idea in 1809, and is today almost universally rejected in favor of evolution by natural selection of random genetic mutations.

A team led by Oliver Pybus, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford, U.K., obtained blood samples from 66 of the Libyan children who had been sent to European hospitals for care.

The team, headed by biologist Miodrag Stojkovic, who has labs at the Principe Felipe Research Centre in Valencia, Spain, and at a company called Sintocell in Serbia, obtained 161 embryos that had been donated for research at the University of Newcastle in the U.K. Of these, thirteen had stopped developing at 6 to 7 days after fertilization, when they were at the 16 - 24 cell stage, and 119 had stopped developing a few days after fertilization.

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.

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.

The notion of such a struggle was first suggested by his close friend Robert Trivers, a theoretical biologist at Rutgers who had observed an indirect form of sibling rivalry in which offspring each try to get more resources than their parents can allocate to them.

After my meeting with Rajesh, who impressed me and is now in line to do the same with my client, I met Susan, a cell biologist whose career in science has been driven just as surely by passion as Rajesh's was.

Overall, concentrations measured by Calafat's team were substantially higher than those that have triggered disease, birth defects, and more in exposed animals, notes Frederick S. vom Saal, a University of Missouri - Columbia biologist who has been probing the toxicology of BPA for more than 15 years.

«Although there are advantages to living in cities, such as the access to food, they seem to be outweighed by the disadvantages, such as stress — at least in terms of how quickly the cells of the great tits age,» says biologist Pablo Salmón who conducts research in the field of evolutionary ecology at the Faculty of Science, Lund University.

Much of her writing from that time, reprinted and updated in this book, covers the ideas of controversial University of California at Berkeley biologist Peter Duesberg, who hypothesizes that AIDS is not caused by HIV but by drug use or poverty.

Later, inspired by developmental biologists down the hall who were working on fruit fly mutants, Tatar started to employ molecular genetics techniques in his studies.

Players take on the role of a research assistant and follow clues left behind by an eccentric biologist who disappeared days before receiving a Nobel Prize.

Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has erected roadblocks in front of a fertility specialist and a stem cell biologist who want to clinically test a different IVF strategy: swapping out a woman's mitochondria by transferring chromosomes from her egg into an egg from another woman.

Eva Mezey, a stem cell biologist at the National Institutes of Health who published one of the transdifferentiation studies and stands by the effect, notes that embryonic cells are naturally more versatile than adult stem cells.

For example, the frogs of La Selva Biological Station in Braulio Carrillo National Park in Costa Rica's Caribbean lowlands have endured a 75 percent drop in population since 1970, perhaps due to climate change, according to a study by biologist Steven Whitfield of Florida International University in Miami, who was not affiliated with this study.

«[Brazil's] borders are hard to control and its extraordinary biodiversity is often seen as easy money by trafficking networks,» says Juan Carlos Cantú, a biologist in Mexico City who manages the Mexico office of Defenders of Wildlife, a conservation group in Washington, D.C. Birds are especially vulnerable, and parrots top the list of threatened species because of the high demand for them in the pet market.

«I can appreciate these results because they illustrate and reinforce, using comparisons of closely related species, something that has been doubted by some evolutionary biologists in the past, namely the fact that plasticity itself can evolve,» says Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute theoretical biologist Mary Jane West - Eberhard, who was not involved in the study.

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.

Gilman, who came to the agency from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, has prided himself on setting up a peer - review system made up of scientists from outside Texas and led by Phillip Sharp, a fellow Nobelist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist.

«People are more understanding of this research,» says Fan, who points to UK fertility regulators» approval in February of a proposal by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan to edit genes in healthy human embryos, at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

That «learning by building» approach would put scientists» understanding of the genome to the test, says chromosome biologist Torsten Waldminghaus of Philipp University of Marburg in Germany, who is not involved in the project.

«We're creating a matching service for scientists, galvanized by their professional organizations, and teachers, who are saying, «I need two biologists, for 3 weeks, to help me build a greenhouse.»

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.