Sentences with phrase «much as biologists»

Not exact matches

They are much like the physicists of the past who refused to see life as the direction toward which physical, mechanical and chemical transformations were tending, or again like the biologists of old who refused to see in consciousness the direction that life was tending.

I am well aware of the many reasons for skepticism, which as a geo - biologist I have pondered as much as anyone.

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.

John Cobb devoted much attention to this topic, and Charles Birch, as an eminent biologist and process thinker, has contributed much by his writings and lectures to the wider acceptance of a process style of thought in the circles of the World Council of Churches.

Much like a 2012 study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, where educational biologist Wendy Middlemiss and her team tracked the behavior and cortisol levels of 25 infants, ages 4 to 10 months, as they attempted a five - day sleep training program that focused on the cry it out method.

Yet, as Collins, a biologist at the University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences who studies the mechanics of neural circuits, notes, «Even the simplest animal with the simplest neural circuits have so much going on.»

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

The relationships between the various cancerous cells from a single person can be plotted out in much the same way as evolutionary biologists plot relationships between species: by drawing phylogenetic trees, branching diagrams that trace «descendants» back to a common ancestor.

Fat accelerates aging After examining 1,122 adult women, molecular biologist Tim Spector of St. Thomas» Hospital in London concluded that extra pounds can age white blood cells as much as 8.8 years.

But the unfavourable economic environment is bound to change, and when it does, biologists with some business experience will again be in demand, not only in financial businesses like VC and investment banks, but also in biotech companies, which need to become much more astute as they mature.

Microarrays have revolutionised functional genomics for biologists in much the same way as the microprocessor revolutionised the world of computing science.

in the May issue claims that biologists say the concept of race is biologically meaningless, presumably because «any large human population has about 85 percent as much genetic variation as the species as a whole.»

I can think of a dozen British biologists who have as much claim to inclusion as some of those whose names do appear.

To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial metabolism and cellular composition change as cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories called ribosomes — to function.

«It's long been hypothesized that life's «standard alphabet» of 20 amino acids evolved from a simpler, earlier alphabet, much as the English alphabet has accumulated extra letters over its history,» said Stephen Freeland, a biologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Most biologists typically recognize three official branches of life: the eukaryotes, which are organisms whose cells have a nucleus; bacteria, the single - celled organisms that may or may not possess a nucleus; and archaea, an ancient line of microbes without nuclei that may make up as much as a third of all life on Earth (See «Will the Methane Bubble Burst?»

Biologists believe that a combination of drugs may be needed to target cancer pathways, much as drug cocktails target HIV.

Meanwhile, behavioral biologist Henrik Brumm of the University of St. Andrews found that male nightingales have cranked up their mating calls as much as 14 decibels to remain audible over urban sounds.

Lead author, Dr. Simeon Hill, a marine biologist at BAS, said: «Each year, growth of Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean produces new material that weighs twice as much as all the sugar produced in the world.

Recently biologists have begun reprogramming cells to carry out much more complex jobs, such as sensing bioweapons or cleaning up pollutants.

Here, biologists say, having set out his adaptationist stall in On the Origin of Species, Darwin proposed female choice as the driving force behind much of the animal world's visual exuberance.

«It's a field people didn't study too much because it was regarded as hopeless,» says Maiken Nedergaard, a cell biologist at New York Medical College in Valhalla.

«The severely threatened European Bison would stand a much better chance if they — as they did in the past - could inhabit open landscapes, which would offer a much wider food spectrum,» muses the biologist from Tübingen, and he summarizes, «The conservation concepts for the European Bison are therefore in need of a fundamental revision.»

When the researchers sequenced the samples for genetic mutations and analyzed chromosome structure, they could trace the tumors» evolutionary histories, much as evolutionary biologists trace the origins of organisms back to their common ancestors based on fossils deposited in different geologic eras.

And Gary Churchill, a statistician - turned - biologist who serves as one of the laboratory's principal investigators, spends much of his time devising experiments for the sometimes odd - looking creatures.

The rest of the crew is played by the great Hiroyuki Sanada, British standout Ariyon Bakare (he plays the curious biologist who's kinda to blame for the whole thing), Olga Dihovichnaya (who looks so much like Gina McKee it's a little unnerving), and Ryan Reynolds as a cocky mechanic, because what else would Ryan Reynolds play in this movie.

Biologists have been much more sympathetic to the theory, because they think — as do I — in terms of evolution and of brain development and organization.

Conservation biologists have just as much opportunity to make their points at local meetings, through the news media, and at outreach events as do TNR proponents.

Our rainforest leaders are naturalists and biologists who have spent much time researching in the Manu Rainforest area and as well as having the necessary personal skills to cater activities to suit personal needs.

There is as much to do as you want, or as little to do as you like — snorkelling, guided coral viewing excursions in our glass bottom boats, scuba diving, guided rainforest walks and presentations by their marine biologists — or simply take the time to relax on the sundeck or in the spa.

There is as much to do as you want, or as little to do as you like — snorkelling, guided coral viewing excursions in the glass bottom boats, scuba diving, guided rainforest walks and presentations by their marine biologists — or simply take the time to relax on the sundeck or in the spa.

However, biologists are not certain as to how much wolves have impacted the population.

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.

As a Biologist by training, much of the specific nuances of climate discussion gets out of my league pretty quickly.

I would suggest he set longer term goals, such as avoiding both copper and coal plants, neither of which plays much of a role in life's energy budget - but that is from a biologists point of view.

In 2009, climate scientists met to try and figure out a system of voluntary standards to guide geoengineering research, much as molecular biologists met in 1975 to assess the potential risks of biotechnology.

Greg Pavelka, a wildlife biologist with the Corps of Engineers in Yankton, SD, told the Seattle Times that this event will leave the river in a «much more natural state than it has seen in decades,» describing the epic flooding as a «prolonged headache for small towns and farmers along its path, but a boon for endangered species.»

In previous work, Madin and WHOI biologist Richard Harbison found that salp fecal pellets sink as much as 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) a day.

I mean, if it were Evolutionary Biologists, they might not debate, but they would offer up the relevant information on method and as much data as possible...

Biologists have pretty much reached a consensus that pollinators such as native bees, honey bees and all the rest are in trouble and that pesticides are likely the main culprit.

Then it ought to be no problem for you to find quotes from reputable scientific organizations representing biologists that say that the consequences of increased CO2 (including climate change) are likely to be more positive than negative and that we should put as much CO2 into the air as we can?

But for as much as wildlife lovers rejoice in the unveiling of fascinating and exotic new species, for the biologists who work in this part of the world, such discoveries are a race against time.