Sentences with phrase «many taxonomists»

But the Superfamily Hominoidea, as taxonomists have long noted, comprises «apes and humans,» not just «apes.»

If these beetles do primarily feed on slime mold, I'd say the taxonomist that named them really did think about the etymology of the binomen before naming them.

Taxonomists are famous for the backhanded compliment when they name stuff.

Once the Spanish had discovered it, they spread it far and wide around the world, so much so that taxonomists in the 18th century thought it originated in China and therefore named it «Capsicum chinense» or the «Chinese pepper.»

Later taxonomists wised up and created the Capsicum genus, to which all chile peppers belong.

Without the advantage of genetic insight these early collectors and taxonomists named these many size, shape, and color forms as distinct taxa giving us a plethora of plant names that have only recently been sorted out reducing a long list of synonymy to four domesticated species.

This pepper, first described by Ruiz and Pavon (1794) never received wide attention from taxonomists until recently (Eshbaugh 1979, 1982).

Enter the amoeba: a collection of blobby, typically asexual microorganisms that taxonomists have historically swept under the rug as evolutionary oddities.

In addition to dealing with asexuality, early taxonomists had to sort amoebas that resembled plants, fungi and animals.

There is the painstaking work of taxonomists who continue to catalogue the earth's estimated 10 quintillion insects; the Greek island beekeepers; and the Zika - fighting mosquitoes in Brazil.

Since its discovery in 1822 by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles, Rafflesia's family background has eluded botanists, says plant taxonomist Todd Barkman of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

«Pull out the genitalia,» says Maxi Polihronakis, a beetle taxonomist at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, «and often everything becomes clear.»

The taxonomist Linnaeus later suggested that Australia be named Banksia in honor of Banks's contribution to Australian natural history.

Taxonomists could become «like expert witnesses,» says Kent Redford of the Wildlife Conservation Society Institute.

For years taxonomists tended to follow the «biological species» concept.

Once the tuna has been caught and cut up, even taxonomist have trouble identifying the exact specie of tuna, such as Northern, Pacific, and Southern.

But to E. O. Wilson, the Harvard evolutionist and taxonomist, this kind of thinking sounds woefully incomplete.

As a result, past taxonomists had categorized the variants as subspecies at best, meaning that although they bred together, they were morphologically or geographically distinct.

Taxonomists need to stop holding out pigheadedly for «the big one,» the ultimate concept that covers all species, he says.

Tibetan Uplift Fools Taxonomists: An Identity Crisis Solved by Anne - Marie Hodge: The Tibetan ground tit (Parus humilis) is a drab, unassuming little songbird.

However, other taxonomists note that the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry overlooked some microbial species that could be considered similarly divisive.

Interpreting the scales as a sign of an early moth proboscis is «possible,» says taxonomist Erik van Nieukerken of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, whose specialties include early moths.

Recently, taxonomists Dr. Mingqiang Wang, Dr. Fuqiang Chen, Prof. Chaodong Zhu and Prof. Chunsheng Wu of the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences described two genera and three species previously unknown to science discovered in southern China.

He was an accomplished field scientist, laboratory researcher and taxonomist.

Ask a taxonomist to estimate Earth's total inventory of species, and they'll probably say 30 million.

Originally trained as a plant taxonomist, Célia Cabral likes to name and classify.

Both studies concluded that forest and savanna elephants are separate species, but they did not sway all taxonomists, who felt that certain data suggested that some forest and savanna elephants shared a recent maternal ancestor.

Taxonomy is disappearing from school curricula and few universities offer courses, leaving the RBGE to do the hard work of educating the next generation of taxonomists.

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) last week unveiled an online cornucopia for plant taxonomists: 2500 crisp digital photos of specimens from four vascular plant families.

Taxonomists play a critical role in this process,» explains the lead author.

NORMALLY thought of as mild - mannered and meticulous, taxonomists in Britain and the US are preparing to break out of their dusty back rooms to do battle with the European Patent Office.

Taxonomists had long divided moas into two types, one of which, Dinornis, included three species: a 5 - foot - tall bird, a 3 - foot dwarf, and a 10 - foot - tall, 550 - pound «supermoa.»

Thiers expects that the digital images will be most appreciated by field taxonomists — particularly those in tropical countries, whose biota is largely cataloged in museums up north.

The old taxonomists assumed that these could be different species or subspecies.

The group includes Heinrich Engler, an Old World taxonomist — a name - popper without equal; Frederick Clements, complete with hat, New World champion of the concept of succession, climax and the superorganism (shades of Gaia to come), and Henry Cowles, whose festschrift published 22 years later not only celebrated his work in the field of ecology but was also the vehicle within which the botanist Sir Arthur George Tansley enunciated the term and the concept of the ecosystem: «More than the sum of its parts».

In this episode, science writer Karen de Seve shares her adventures in the Bering Sea; journalist Dr. John Miller talks about a radiation health conference; and taxonomist and paleontologist Scott Thomson discusses the late Harriet the tortoise.

Linnaeus, born in southern Sweden in 1707, was an «intensely practical» man, according to Sandra Knapp, a botanist and taxonomist at the Natural History Museum in London.

Taxonomists are cleaning up and adding to the book of life on hundreds of thousands of known marine species — from plankton to sperm whales

«One species described multiple times: How taxonomists contribute to biodiversity discovery.»

The research stems from a chance encounter, when a cricket taxonomist found an invasive cricket in the home of one of the NC State researchers.

Taxonomists have described 349 newly discovered mammals since 1992, including an elephant shrew from Tanzania early this year.

(We'd suggest some variation on Antpitta avis canis Ridgely, but who knows what will happen when the taxonomists go into action.)

One of the functions of taxonomists is to determine if a species is new or if it has already been described.

Standardizing species concepts across broad groups, mammals and reptiles, for instance, would reduce the chaos, says coauthor Leslie Christidis, a taxonomist at Southern Cross University in Coffs Harbour.

To commemorate Carl Linnaeus's Birthday, an international committee of taxonomists has released its annual roundup of the most noteworthy newly discovered species

The environmental organization reached out to a taxonomist in Florida, who in turn contacted a predator hunter and tracker in Texas by the name of Roy McBride.

But perhaps the most important part of the top down study is the knowledge held by expert potato taxonomists who have long histories of geographically extensive work.

In 1758 the Swedish taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus dubbed our species Homo sapiens, Latin for «wise man.»

Today, taxonomists recognize three spider groups.

About 3 dozen taxonomists, informatics experts, ecologists, sociologists, and computer scientists met this week at the New York Botanical Garden and decided that in the past decade, technological improvements — primarily related to molecular tools and the digitization of collections (such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library)-- make such a major undertaking possible.