Sentences with phrase «leading biologists»

Now Lips and a batch of leading biologists and conservationists have penned a fresh plea.

In addition to Barrows, the authors are Michelle Murphy - Mariscal, lead biologist for the Western Riverside Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, and Rebecca Hernandez, an assistant professor at UC Davis who was previous a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

His studies have shown that imidacloprid can impair honeybee memory and their ability to learn new odors, which leads biologists to suspect that forager bees exposed to this pesticide might become lost and die far from the hive.

Apart from him, the work of the Center for Process Studies with leading biologists and physicists would have been very difficult to initiate.

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

When leading biologists were unraveling the sequence of the human genome in the late 1990s, they ran a pool on the number of genes contained in the 3 billion base pairs that make up our DNA.

«It beats me how leading biologists could look at the fossil record and conclude that human evolution came to a standstill 50,000 years ago,» Hawks says.

This means that bonus returning cast member BD Wong as Dr Henry Wu, the original lead biologist of the park, has been back to play with even more test tubes.

And this, we learn from «The Birdmuda Triangle,» provided the anomaly that led biologist Bill Keeton to figure out a third piece in the puzzle that is pigeon homing.

Human evolution has been defined by conflict, says E. O. Wilson, one of the world's leading biologists.

The technology behind electronic sensors that detect odors has advanced markedly in recent years, leading biologists to ponder applications to conservation.

But examples from the morphological, behavioral and, increasingly, molecular realms have led some biologists to suspect that this phenomenon may play a much more sizable role in evolution than is generally appreciated.

Shawn Sartorius, the lead biologist for the federal project, explains, «We'd like to see them continue to expand — naturally or with help.

One of the biggest flaws in Swedish director Daniel Espinosa's (Safe House) Life, which follows what happens to the crew of the International Space Station after they discover the first evidence of extraterrestrial beings, is that lead biologist Hugh (Ariyon Bakare) seems to immediately throw all common sense out of the window and get emotionally attached to the thing they've brought on board, despite really REALLY glaring warning signs that the alien is highly intelligent.

As for the main threats to wildlife, leading biologists and environmental watchdogs agree: human - led activities — including climate change, habitat destruction, and development — are far and away the number one cause of wildlife depletion.

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.

The discrepancy between theory and reality has led some biologists to call for a change in the way conservationists describe the extinction process to the public, and in the way that scientists study it.

Sixty - five of the world's leading biologists are demanding the «historical antagonism» towards nuclear power from the green lobby end.

It was as if a leading biologist had gotten up at a professional conference to denounce germ theory.