Even some sexual species would not qualify, according to Richard Mayden, an
ichthyologist and
evolutionary theorist at Saint Louis University.
You have to be a population biologist, a botanist, an ecologist, a biophysicist, a biochemist, a microbiologist, a molecular biologist, a bioengineer, a geneticist, an
evolutionary biologist, a developmental biologist, a zoologist, an anatomist, a pathologist, a virologist, an
ichthyologist, a herpetologist, an ornithologist, a paleontologist, an exobiologist, or you - get - the - gist.