Sentences with phrase «explained by biologists»

All the examples I have given of self - organization in biology are explained by biologists in strictly mechanistic terms, complex though these mechanisms usually are.

Our mental achievements can not be fully explained by biologists, physicists or chemists; but still we must admit that these achievements could not occur without the faithful and predictable recurrence of physical and biological reactions and routines.

Not exact matches

The process of synthesis by which azoic elements have reached their present multiplicity and complexity is an evolution, the same process entirely as the biologist traces in the order of living things, and the synthetic chemical compound embodies in itself a complex relativity capable of being expressed in most exact laws, which reflect the evolutionary emergence of its substance as much as do the organs of an animal explained in terms of evolutionary development.

An eminent biologist explains why anglers should not be penalized by needless regulations on the largemouth bass and offers reliable fishing tips

Evolutionary biologists had long looked to inclusive fitness to explain «eusocial» species, those that live in highly connected structures inhabited by many generations at once.

A new study by University of Arizona biologists helps explain why different groups of animals differ dramatically in their number of species, and how this is related to differences in their body forms and ways of life.

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

Now, an elaborate genetic study conducted by researchers at Eawag and Bern University helps to explain the secret of its success: the stickleback can evidently adapt very rapidly to new habitats — so rapidly that, for evolutionary biologists, it serves as a model for the divergence of a single species into two or more distinct species.

This new PLOS Collection discusses major efforts by evolutionary biologists and paleontologists to understand sauropods as living animals, and to explain their evolutionary success and uniquely gigantic body size.

Reasoning that the secretions play a defensive role that could explain the bug's competitive edge, a team led by biologist Thomas Eisner of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed the fluid.

«While working on this project with cell biologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, we have been able to verify various hypotheses by selectively replacing specific metabolic products whose synthesis had been blocked by the toxic substance,» Duschl explains.

For years, biologists have assumed that skin color is affected by something like the physics that explains why the sky is blue.

By incorporating both the area of the gecko toe pad and stiffness in their model, the biologists found it was possible to explain 92 percent of the variation in adhesive ability among a variety of gecko species.

The cell biologist helped explain how blood clots form by identifying factor XIII, the enzyme that binds proteins together to create a plug in a wound, preventing a person from bleeding to death.

Biologist R. Dale Guthrie of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks largely agrees with the findings, but he says more work is needed to explain why some mammoths seem to have survived in regions colonized by humans and why many modern elephants live in areas easily accessible to humans, such as the African savannah.

The paper's researchers, led by U.C. Davis marine biologist Patrick Kilduff, explain that the NPGO — which is largely driven by a flavor of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that produces warming in the tropical central Pacific Ocean — has become more common in recent decades.

Endosymbiotic theory, that attempts to explain the origins of eukaryotic cell organelles such as mitochondria in animals and fungi and chloroplasts in plants was greatly advanced by the seminal work of biologist Lynn Margulis in the 1960s.

Some dog fanciers describe this behavior in terms used by biologists to explain wolf interactions — they toss around terms such as «pack dynamics» and «dominance hierarchy» to explain how dogs see the world.

«Because western society's orientations toward wildlife is becoming more moralistic and less utilitarian,» explain the authors of a study recently published online in PLoS ONE, «conservation biologists must develop innovative and collaborative ways to address the threats posed by feral cats rather than assuming wholesale removal of feral cats through euthanasia is a universally viable solution.»

Learn more about the area as explained by Tierney Thys, National Geographic Expedition Leader, Marine Biologist and Filmmaker.

Your linked work is a subset of the work done by biologists in the pursuit of explaining evolution.

When sea ice covers the coastal water in early spring, it prevents the spring bloom from starting too early, when it could be disrupted by storms, explained Jeff Bowman, a marine biologist from Lamont who is currently working at Palmer Station.

I'd be reassured to see climate modellers hammering on how detailed interesting regularities in experimental data (existing or wished - for) are explained or predicted by their model: something like the (honestly exasperated) way biologists refer to all the megabytes of detail revealed by DNA sequencing and other molecular biology which just keeps matching the constraints of Darwin's model.