Sentences with phrase «many leading biologists»

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

The postulation of extraneous organizational principles leads biologists like Monod to classify Polanyi's thought as vitalistic.2 (Vitalism is the philosophy of nature which holds that the existence of life is exclusively the result of some extra-material principle totally different from matter.)

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

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

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.

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.

He founded and produces iBiology, lectures by leading biologists which are made freely available on the web.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

«Since its completion, the book has been endorsed by prominent scientists including Philip Skell, a member of the National Academy of Sciences; Scott Turner, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York; and Professor Norman Nevin, one of Britain's leading geneticists.»

Yet its pristine grace led Arthur Peacocke, the English theologian and biologist, to aver that the Holy Spirit himself had written it, using Bach's hand.

Apr. 4, 2013 — A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago.

It emphasises that science and technology must be «at the service of the human person» (DV 2) and the language is quite strong: «Science without conscience can only lead to man's ruin» (DV 2); and «No biologist or doctor can reasonably claim, by virtue of his scientific competence, to be able to decide on people's rights and destiny» (DV 3).

I do not envision that such changes would lead to talk of God among physicists or biologists or psychologists.

In addition to confirmation by leading evolutionary biologists and anthropologists, the behavioral goal assumptions underpinning George's model are also surprisingly consistent with feminist social analysis.

All biologists agree that the behavior of organisms as a whole is directive, in the sense that in the course of evolution some at least of it has been modified by selection so as to lead with greater or less certainty towards states which favour the survival and reproduction of the individual.

Thus there appeared the philosophy of creative evolution, whose leading protagonist was Henri Bergson, a French biologist who had turned to philosophical writing.

This leads into discussions that are highly controversial amongst biologists and philosophers.

El Porvenir plans on using the award funds for a biologist - led conservation course at the local school, along with an art contest for students with the theme «Forest Conservation.»

A new team led by biologist Andrew Casper will expand Shedd Aquarium's research of animals that live in local waterways — and how to protect them.

Now ancient DNA from the fossilized skeleton of a short, dark - skinned, dark - eyed man who lived at least 36,000 years ago along the Middle Don River in Russia presents a different view: This young man had DNA from all three of those migratory groups and so was already «pure European,» says evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev of the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen, who led the analysis.

The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.

«It's ecological roulette,» says Hanno Seebens, a biologist at the University of Oldenburg in Germany and the study's lead author.

Recent interdisciplinary research led by Morehouse in the Morehouse Research Lab and Nathan Clark, biologist in the Clark Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh looked closer at the complex structures and mechanisms within male butterfly ejaculates and the adaptive responses in the female butterfly reproductive tract.

The project was led by three scientists: John Harley, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE) at Cincinnati Children's and a faculty member of the Cincinnati VA Medical Center; Leah Kottyan, PhD, an immunobiology expert with CAGE; and Matthew Weirauch, PhD, a computational biologist with the center.

So researchers led by Ullas Karanth, a tiger biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York City, turned to poop.

The reserve is one of the largest in the world and has been heralded as a huge success, but this study, led by conservation biologist Leah Gerber of Arizona State University in Tempe, highlights one possible down - side to the reserve.

Synthetic biologist Drew Endy is leading efforts to make the natural world programmable — which means blurring the distinction between information and matter

Dr Evans led an international team of anthropologists and developmental biologists from Finland, USA, UK and Germany, using a new extensive database on fossil hominins and modern humans collected over several decades, as well as high resolution 3D imaging to see inside the fossil teeth.

In 2008, he took a staff position in the bioinformatics department at Gladstone, where he now leads a team of biologists - turned - programmers and programmers - turned - biologists working to build free, open - source software tools for basic biomedical research.

A new study published in the journal Nature, led by evolutionary biologist Dr Alistair Evans from Monash University, took a fresh look at the teeth of humans and fossil hominins.

Meanwhile a team led by Yihong Ye, a cell biologist at the National Institutes of Health, discovered another pathway that uses different protein workhorses to accomplish a similar off - load.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

I hope that other funding agencies will follow the HHMI lead in this regard and make more funds available to assist biologists who have gained valuable industry experience.

Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart - Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion of a bird's skull features.

Leading such an interdisciplinary team has special challenges, because chemists, biologists, and engineers speak different languages.

So Anderson, Seattle's lead invertebrate biologist, began to wonder: If keepers recognize octopuses as individuals, how much difference is there among individual octopuses?

Led by paleontologists, the AP3 team also comprises geologists, anatomists, ecologists and biologists.

«Unless we fill critical data gaps, this is the information we have to base management decisions on for the foreseeable future — amid increasing development pressures,» says Kristin Laidre, the study's lead author and a marine mammal biologist at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle.

With less food available, fewer young Adelie and chinstrap penguins alike survive to maturity, said the new study's lead author, wildlife biologist Wayne Trivelpiece of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

«The findings have implications for how we understand animal evolution,» said Scripps marine biologist Greg Rouse, the lead author of the study.

This colonization theory led vent biologists to assume that neighboring vent fields should harbor similar animal communities.