Sentences with phrase «many other biologists»

He's trying to spur other biologists to study illegal grows too.

During my 3 - year fellowship in Cambridge, I worked on a variety of ecological and epidemiological problems, and also continued applying evolutionary game theory to animal behaviour, with Sigal and with other biologists.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

Other biologists are astonished by the findings.

While the search goes on, Pruitt hopes other biologists will hunt for evidence of the phenomenon in plants, animals and even humans.

Matkin and other biologists say there is no compelling historical evidence that large numbers of killer whales were ever dependent on the great whales wiped out by industrial whaling.

At first, other biologists were fanaticists about sticking to earlier methods of calculating relationships between species.

He and other biologists wonder whether electricity might trigger the development of other organs as well.

Other biologists in the region have documented similar patterns of change.

Of course, for any other biologist this was just a simple change of model species, but I was struck by the bemused response from everyone else.

They make specific and refutable predictions based on these principles and call for other biologists to test them theoretically and experimentally.

While microbiologists have been fairly open to it, other biologists have been harder to convince.

And it became clear many other biologists needed software for these tasks so it was super satisfying to make a toolbox to help everyone else too.

She'll return in 2017 along with other biologists and veterinary experts from the Center to continue her research.

He and other biologists pointed out to me how certain flora and fauna showed a remarkable ability to revive if just a small flow is allowed (like the Colorado River Delta clam).

Twenty - four years ago, Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy and other biologists began a remarkable experiment on the fast - eroding fringe of rain forest near the Brazilian city of Manaus.

Dr. Malhi and several other biologists familiar with the study said that the high biological diversity in Yasuní, in itself, hints that the area functioned as a moist refuge for life through past climate shifts that saw much of Amazonia shift to drier forest.

Instead of focusing on the nearly immeasurable moment when a species ceases to exist, he and other biologists say, science should focus harder on the forces that lead toward extinction — the destruction or fragmentation of habitat, the introduction of invasive species, the appropriation of water or other vital resources.

There's one other question about polar bear breeding and ice conditions that I'm hoping to pursue with these and other biologists working in the Arctic.

Not exact matches

I was reminded of the similarities the other day when I happened upon biologist Jerry A. Coyne's observation that «evolution is like an architect who can not design a building from scratch, but must build every new structure by adapting a preexisting building, keeping the structure habitable all the while.»

Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:

As I point out in Darwin on Trial, molecular biologists even now use the language of intelligent communication (information, libraries, translation) because there is no other way to depict what they are seeing.

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.

Nonetheless, as Phillip Johnson and many others have noted, most evolutionary biologists appear to have accepted uncritically the worldview of naturalism.

However, the first workers in this field, such as Haldane and Fisher from the theoretical point of view, and biologists such as Timofeef - Ressovsky, Dubinin and others, in practical field investigations, were still thinking mainly in terms of individual genes.

His comments on «scientific» views of consciousness are also timely because populist evolutionary biologists and «physicalist» philosophers of mind often portray the conscious mind, indeed the «self», as nothing other than the sum total of the chemical and biological parts of the brain and central nervous system.

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

The physicist or the biologist is accountable to no - one other than the lords of their own subjects.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus the mechanistic explanation of the universe.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

But there are still more than enough eiders and other sea ducks, and biologists say they could stand greater gunning, thereby taking some of the pressure off other ducks which are over-gunned.

Biologist David Schubert warns, «Since children are the most likely to be adversely effected by toxins and other dietary problems, if the GM food is given to them without proper testing, they will be the experimental animals.

Other announced candidates for agriculture commissioner, Republican Mike McCalister and Democrat David Walker, a marine biologist from Fort Lauderdale, did not respond to requests for comment before a Monday deadline about disaster - related issues.

At a meeting last month just outside Boston, chemists and biologists discussed the promise of DNA - encoded chemical libraries (DELs), which rely on the unique talents of DNA to track, select, and even synthesize compounds that bind to enzymes, receptors, and other biological targets.

Stacey Baker, public engagement program associate at AAAS and a trained biologist, spoke with a teenager who wants to study biology about the many paths open to scientists and the other elements beyond your field of study — such as they type of work environment a candidate might be seeking — to keep in mind when selecting a career.

Erica Ollmann Saphire, a structural biologist at Scripps Research Institute, said she and other researchers are investigating whether other antibodies could be more effective in fighting Ebola; she said she thinks scientists could improve on the two of the three antibodies in the ZMapp cocktail.

For many evolutionary biologists, nothing gets their dander up faster than suggesting evolution is anything other than the process of natural selection, acting on random mutations.

Although DARPA didn't pay much attention to the life sciences at first, since 1990, when it hired its first biologist, «it made up for lost time, and in June 2014 DARPA put the life sciences on an equal footing with other disciplines by creating the Biology Technologies Office,» Mervis noted in a sidebar.

Virus hit Missouri in 2010 Two years ago, Missouri biologists surveying caves and other sites where animals hibernate saw signs suggesting the presence of white - nose fungus on resting bats.

Darwin's theory of natural selection is so powerful that we can find it hard to believe features can arise in other ways, says biologist John Bonner

«It's easier to keep fighting if you know others are supporting you,» added cancer biologist Isabel Quiros Gonzalez, who works at the University of Cambridge.

«At face value, it looks very interesting,» says Rudolf Jaenisch, a stem cell biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who hopes that other teams will soon repeat the experiments.

To get ready for field collection work, he asked several biologists in other departments at Jagiellonian for guidance.

Stem cell researchers in Boston and in Stockholm confronted a bizarre and uncomfortable situation last week: accusations of scientific fraud from an anonymous e-mail address, sent not only to the researchers in question but also to other prominent stem cell biologists, several scientific journals, and reporters.

The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

Field biologists have observed that crows seem to recognise them, but it was unclear whether the birds distinguish people by their faces or by other distinctive features of dress, gait or behaviour.

What unites the sociologists, physicists, biologists, and other scientists studying networks is the recognition that «whether they're networks of people, computers, genes, [or] neurons, they often obey similar mathematical rules and have similar properties,» says Nicholas Christakis, a professor of sociology and of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

To figure out the purpose of these patterns, Tim Caro, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues collected photographs of 164 terrestrial predators from six families of predators — canids, felids, ursids (bears), mustelids (which include weasels, otters, and badgers), viverrids (which include civets, binturongs, and other catlike animals), and herpestids (mongooses and meerkats).

On the other hand, I'm a conservation biologist because I care about wildlife.

A growing cadre of do - it - yourself (DIY) biologists have taken to closets, kitchens, basements, and other offbeat lab spaces to tinker with genomes, create synthetic life - forms, or — like Rienhoff — seek out elusive cures.