Sentences with phrase «come as biologists»

«As ambitious as our task was, we have only just scraped the surface in characterizing leadership across mammalian societies and some of the most exciting aspects of the project are still yet to come as biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith said.

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One of the paradoxes attaching to the human species, a cause of some bitterness among biologists, is that every man comes into the world as defenseless, and as incapable of finding his way single - handed in our civilization, as the new - born Sinanthropus a hundred thousand years ago.

Thirdly, as a biologist I have come to realize that the urge to live is as basic to life as are DNA molecules.

Cerys Parker is a marine biologist and teacher as well as a Mum to 2, she is the founder of Rainy Day Mum, sharing Creative Family Fun, come rain or shine inspiring ideas for art, play and activities that the whole family can enjoy together.

The answer may come with better GPS technology that can measure the birds» vertical positions as well as their horizontal ones, says biologist Ty Hedrick of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Economists, fisheries and evolutionary biologists from Kiel University, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and the Finnish University of Helsinki working together in an interdisciplinary project have calculated how fishery and aquaculture will develop in the coming decades in regard to popular types of edible fish such as sea bass, salmon, cod and tuna.

Although BRCA1's role in tumor initiation is well known, the fact that it also seems to be involved in tumor progression comes as a surprise, says Eliot Rosen, a molecular biologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Scientific research depends on trust, so it should come as no surprise that Korean biologist Hwang Woo Suk was able to fool colleagues into believing that he had cloned stem cells from 11 different patients.

To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial metabolism and cellular composition change as cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories called ribosomes — to function.

Petit comes across as «someone who is very frank and determined,» says Patrick Lemaire, a CNRS developmental biologist at the Cell Biology Research Center of Montpellier in France.

Bressloff, along with mathematical biologist Berton Earnshaw, conceived of the dendritic spine — the mushroom shape at the downstream end of the neuron — as a two - compartment box: On the far downstream end, essentially in the synapse, scaffolding proteins suspend AMPA receptors so they can bind glutamate signals coming from the upstream neuron.

The discovery comes as a surprise to some biologists, but it may eventually help clarify why certain human eye defects arise and lead to ways to repair damaged or diseased eyes.

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

As an undergraduate student in biology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Marcy came under the wing of evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Hadly, whose outreach work made Marcy keenly aware of the value of doing more than just research.

This might come as a surprise given the emergence of «biological» drugs, which rely on the skills of biologists rather than chemists (see «Burgeoning Biotech»).

While the politicians talk, biologists have released the latest figures on the state of the global ecosystem — and they are as grim as we have come to expect.

The interplay between fly and microbes has come to fascinate evolutionary biologists, as genes in both bacterium and host change across generations, sometimes breaking down or taking on odd functions, depending on what the other partner is doing.

As my responsibilities have changed, I have come to realize that professional membership organizations like AAAS (the publisher of Science and ScienceCareers.org) and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)-- the organization I direct — provide among the most effective networking opportunities that you can find, leading more often than you might imagine to new professional opportunities, as well as building a strong and lasting sense of communitAs my responsibilities have changed, I have come to realize that professional membership organizations like AAAS (the publisher of Science and ScienceCareers.org) and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)-- the organization I direct — provide among the most effective networking opportunities that you can find, leading more often than you might imagine to new professional opportunities, as well as building a strong and lasting sense of communitas well as building a strong and lasting sense of communitas building a strong and lasting sense of community.

Evolutionary biologists use several methods to decipher exactly how we came to be as we are.

«As protected conservation areas become smaller, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, which are expanding to the boundaries of these protected areas,» says Neil Jordan, a conservation biologist from University of New South Wales, in a news release.

I'm coming at this as a biologist who has necessarily had to learn outside of his comfort zone.

However, it may come as a surprise (or not, considering the dramatic rise in obesity) that biologists have known for a long time that B is false.

It is studied for years, and though plenty of drones and personnel are sent into it, nothing ever comes back — until a soldier, Kane (Oscar Isaac), returns home to his biologist wife, Lena (Natalie Portman), a year after she has written him off as dead.

All of this unfolds through Lena (Natalie Portman), a former soldier and biologist, who is shocked when her missing husband (Oscar Isaac) comes home near death after a top - secret mission into an area known as The Shimmer.

Dr. Fligiel grew up in Wisconsin and was working as a wildlife biologist when a pair of kittens came into her life and convinced her to return to veterinary school.

Scott Hardin — a biologist, expert on exotic and invasive species and proud owner of a ball python named Ricky (as in Lucy's husband)-- has the kind of insight that comes only with years of experience working at the intersection of science, environmental stewardship and public policy, balancing conservation of fish and wildlife with responsible pet ownership.

On Wednesday, September 12th, come hear National Park Service biologist Dan Richards as he shares his nearly 30 year experience monitoring 21 rocky intertidal sites at Channel Islands National Park.

As I read in and around the topic of climate change, one thing that is most compelling to me is that ornithologists, geologists, marine biologists, ichthyologists, oceanographers, glaciologists, physicists, zoologists, primatologists, sailors, fishermen, etc, etc, all working in their own disciplines and professions are coming to the same conclusion that something profound is happening with our climate.

Well, Donald Hamilton was a giant in evolutionary biology, however, there is a lot of math and social theories related to evolution, as natural selection and artificial selection work both antagonsitically and synergistically, and many evolutionary biologists come to see artificial selection as another process of the ongoing, transforming natural selection pressures of the species.

As John Bruno, another marine biologist, plainly put it, however, it all comes down to whether the decision - makers choose to take these results into consideration: «Sooner or later, we are going to see a truly devastating spill hit a coral reef.

John, Ove also came out with the 150 year timeframe at the Brisbane meeting, which to those of us in the audience with a true geological background was just another example of the lack of understanding of a marine biologist for real earth history as you rightly point out.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 — The Interior Department proposed Wednesday to designate polar bears as a threatened species, saying that the accelerating loss of the Arctic ice that is the bears» hunting platform has led biologists to believe that bear populations will decline, perhaps sharply, in the coming decades.

As the Endangered Species Act nears its 40th birthday at the end of December, conservation biologists are coming to terms with a danger not foreseen in the early 1970s: global climate change Federal fisheries scientists have published a special section in this month's issue of Conservation Biology that outlines some considerations for coming decades.