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.»
The complaints are tempered
by her
biologist's curiosity, and the mix of memoir and scientific
observation works.
Climate - change studies
by Boston University
biologists show leaf - out times of trees and shrubs at Walden Pond are an average of 18 days earlier than when Henry David Thoreau made his
observations there in the 1850s.
Such
observations give
biologists richer insights into animal behavior, others say, and might help researchers learn more about the roots of human culture
by clarifying what makes it distinctive.
Today, in a paper in the open access journal ZooKeys, a team of bat
biologists led
by Don Buden of the College of Micronesia published a wealth of new information on this «forgotten» species, including the first detailed
observations of wild populations.
«However, it is the bringing together of
observations by ecologists, theory from
biologists, physics from land surface modellers and climate science in the global modeling, that is revolutionary.»
This is in line with field
observations of hybrid birds made
by study co-authors Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary
biologists at Princeton University in New Jersey who have worked in the Galapagos for decades.