Sentences with phrase «even by biologists»

There have been many such changes, 8 so significant, in fact, that one wonders if Darwin must not be regarded, even by the biologists themselves, more as a precursor of developments leading to present - day evolutionary thinking rather than as a continuing historical source of our scientific understanding of man.

Not exact matches

«We're seeing novel signatures that haven't even been characterized by cancer biologists yet,» says Otte.

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.

If you increase the size of a Sudoku grid to nine by nine, you suddenly have 6.7 sextillion possible scenarios... and you get an idea of the nightmare molecular biologists faced when they tried to code even a slightly complex biological system.

To find out whether pesticides are taken up by amphibians even in relatively pristine areas, a team led by wildlife biologist Donald Sparling of the U.S. Geological Survey in Laurel, Maryland, tested Pacific treefrogs in several national parks.

Even against the backdrop of these changes, the 2010 and 2013 sightings in the Atlantic took biologists by surprise.

«I was impressed by [Markram's] openness and understanding of technological solutions, even though he is a biologist,» says Schürmann.

Nonsense on Stilts by Massimo Pigliucci (University of Chicago Press) A tour of solid science, shaky science, and pseudoscience, this crash course in critical thinking by biologist and philosopher Pigliucci includes handy rules for evaluating the confused public discourse on climate change, evolution, and even UFOs.

Biologists noticed that eggs watched by their parents — or even by foster sandhill crane parents — hatched more successfully than eggs in the incubators.

Based mainly on fossil evidence and specimens preserved in amber, biologists concluded long ago that spiders descended from a many - legged, scorpionlike ancestor that by 380 million years ago had a long tail but looked quite spiderlike and may even have had silk glands.

Many such amino acids have been created by biologists and they have even been substituted into simple organisms such as fruit flies.

Developmental biologist Thomas Lecuit combines a successful scientific career and fatherhood by keeping work and family completely separate — and that means not even working from home in the evenings or on weekends.

Scientists were even more stunned in July 2002 when researchers led by stem cell biologist Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota reported that bone marrow — derived cells they had injected into young embryos contributed to all three embryonic layers, just as embryonic stem cells would do.

It also offers an alternative to the approach used by biologist Craig Venter of building a genome from scratch to impart new properties to cells — laborious because even the smallest error kills the cell (see «Craig Venter: Why I put my name in synthetic genomes «-RRB-.

Now that climate change poses an even more urgent threat to the endangered tortoise, biologists have a controversial plan to safeguard its future — by moving it to new sites outside of its known historical range.

Biologists have generally assumed that the damage will be proportional to the dose, but in vitro studies have shown that cells can repair modest DNA damage caused by radiation — and that low - dose radiation might even protect the cell against future exposure.

Dead birds, including evening grosbeak, pine siskin, common redpoll, American goldfinch and house finch, were collected by Sharon Browder, US Fish and Wildlife (USFW) biologist at the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge, and sent to the USFW Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin.

Because you aren't a geneticist or biologist, you won't know everything by heart so you'll have to ask on message boards, read dozens of Wikipedia articles and even more studies on your particular subject (canine acceleration mechanisms.)

As scientific work is so often in progress by biologists, botanists, archaeologists, etc., these people are often available during the evening hours to discuss their work with interested visitors.

As John puts it: «It turns out that profit - seeking fishermen should want to catch even fewer fish than the «sustainable» number calculated by biologists, because leaving more fish in the ocean leads to bigger populations that make for easier and more lucrative fishing in the long run.»

At an Aspen Environmental Forum this summer, Marris annoyed eminent conservation biologist E.O. Wilson by talking about expanding our definition of nature, perhaps even to include invasive species.

It is widely accepted by biologists that the new roads built to serve oil, gas and wind energy production operations may facilitate, or even directly allow, the transportation of invasive species, but specific cases are largely undocumented, so scientists are forced to rely on their general knowledge regarding invasive species introductions.

But a new study by Brown University biologist Christopher Anderson reveals that we didn't really even know the half of it.

Even if the water is perfectly safe for drinking, it could still kill wildlife by accumulating in higher densities in the food chain, says Felix Smith, a retired biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who spoke with Water Deeply.

However, an agrologist, biologist, forester, technologist or geoscientist hired by a developer can carry out a «riparian areas assessment» to reduce the set - backs required, or even to authorize development within the set - back.