Sentences with phrase «of zoologists»

Folder 10 1958 - 60 Membership letters and replies, American Society of Zoologists - Division of Animal Behavior

The majority of zoologists conducts research and teaches at colleges and universities, while others work for federal agencies that have a concern for wildlife.

To find a better solution, a team of zoologists and engineers studied video recordings of more than 300,000 hens living on free - range farms in the United Kingdom.

Now one team of zoologists is listening to what the rats have to say.

Author: Don E. Wilson, David Burnie Hardcover; 624 pages; color photographs Series: Smithsonian Institution Publisher: DK Suggested Retail: $ 50 This is a giant reference book of the world's wildlife put together by the Smithsonian and a group of zoologists.

But his procedure is different from that of the zoologist; he is preoccupied with the general structures of animal life, and not alone with the «history» of a particular species.

Animal Days (1979) traced Morris's life from childhood through the pivotal event of his life, the 1967 publication of The Naked Ape, the first widely read study of Homo sapiens from the viewpoint of a zoologist.

He dismisses the careful experimental work of the zoologist Marian Stamp Dawkins at the University of Oxford, and does not mention the extensive neurophysiological research on slaughter by agricultural researchers in Britain.

Featuring a panoply of talking heads that includes a loop of zoologist Richard Dawkins repeating the words, «We, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes,» this chapter verges on scare mongering.

The majority of a zoologist's day is spent outside collecting data that will later be taken back to the lab and analyzed.

Not exact matches

In 1555 an early French zoologist, called Belon, showed from the comparison of the skeletons of a bird and a man that there was such a remarkable similarity, that man carried about in his own body the proof of his connection with the animals.

It used to be thought that ancient Greek zoologists had estimated the number of types of fish to be 153, 50 that the number was said to symbolize a perfect and a complete catch.

It would be absurd for a zoologist to start reasoning a priori about theproperties of certain animals; a zoologist must go and observe the animals he is studying.

Indeed, they make use of the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who in this matter wrongly adhered to the view held by Aristotle, who was a zoologist as well as a philosopher.

Nelson, a senior zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History, wrote that statement in the preface to a recent book by Wendell Bird, the leading attorney for the creationist organizations.

The point is delightfully illustrated in Eddington's parable about the zoologist studying deep - sea life by means of a net of ropes on a two - inch mesh.

A Viennese zoologist proved that the acquired characters of the spotted salamander could be inherited, until it was discovered that the «spots» had been applied with ink.

Show me ONE example of an astronaut or a zoologist bringing their expertise to bear on the god issue.

«If we could shrink ourselves to the atomic scale,» writes zoologist Richard Dawkins in The Blind Watchmaker, «we would see almost endless rows of atoms stretching to the horizon in straight lines» galleries of geometric repetition.»

The zoologist can not escape the problem of the relation of matter and mind.

One of those destroyers of unity for Adams was the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel.

I am speaking here as a zoologist, specifically a geneticist, who has been concerned with the implications of his field for the philosophy of science.

For though Darwin's particular theory of biological evolution was destined to undergo changes and modifications in the hands of successive biologists and zoologists (and with this we are not here concerned), there can be no going back to the simple Biblical picture of origins which was commonly held before Darwin.

(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.

There are important differences between the altruism observed by zoologists, and caritas as described by St Thomas (Chapter 8), and a biologist who ascribes the «emotion of forgiveness» to hyenas is betraying a conceptual hinterland quite unlike that of the Thomist (Chapter 4).

Ardent defenders of the Bible refused to accept these conclusions, and one of them, a zoologist named P. H. Gosse (1810 - 1888) admitted all the evidence of geology but claimed that at the creation God had deliberately placed the fossils in the rock so that men would later find them there.

«It is only a matter of the method He has chosen in creation,» Maynard M. Metcalf, a zoologist from Oberlin College, declared in expert testimony permitted at the trial (though not before the jury).

So it is not surprising that a considerable number of biochemists and zoologists, biophysicists and biologists, psychologists and sociologists, have been attracted to it.

Cockscomb was the idea of Alan Rabinowitz, an American zoologist who spent years by himself deep in the Belizean jungles, charting the behavior of the jaguar for the New York Zoological Society.

Matthew Cobb is a zoologist at the University of Manchester, UK.

It began with only 4 members: John Gavin, a bacteriologist, Edward C. Keller, a geneticist, S. Phyllis Stearner, a zoologist, and Thomas Austin, an ecologist, and quickly grew to a network of over one thousand scientists and engineers.

Cooke, a zoologist and documentary filmmaker, has a storehouse of such tales of animal adventure.

But as zoologist Bill Schutt chronicles in Cannibalism, plenty of creatures inhabit their own version of a dog - eat - dog world.

I»M ON the way to a smart hotel in Soho, London, to meet Matt Ridley, the aristocratic zoologist - turned - journalist who has become one of the UK's foremost science writers.

Koepfli and Wayne suspect that zoologists had mistaken African and Eurasian golden jackals for the same species because of a high degree of similarity in their skull and tooth morphology.

Enlisting the aid of everyone from astrobiologists to self - styled «deathsplainers,» zoologist Howard sets off on a fascinating and often funny quest to answer what life is and why it ends.

Zoologist Levin schools us on all we've been missing in this detailed, delightful love letter to one of our nation's less - adored animals.

«It's a neat study,» says zoologist David Bilton, who studies aquatic invertebrates at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.

Zoologists are taught that life starts with animals, and they block out four - fifths of the information in biology [by ignoring the other four major groups of life] and all of the information in geology.

Ben Rowson, a zoologist at the National Museum Wales in the UK, says he was not aware of all these cases of slugs eating birds.

As a philosopher friend of mine once said, a zoologist studying tigers, while riding on the back of a tiger, should be very careful.

A retired zoologist claims that the metamorphic transition from caterpillar to butterfly may have arisen when different kinds of animals accidentally mated with one another, but experts are skeptical

«It is important and a valuable stepping stone in our quest to understand how intelligence evolved, but like all studies, it is one piece of a larger puzzle,» says Sarah Benson - Amram, a zoologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, whose recent comparative study of 39 species of carnivores reached the opposite conclusion.

Zoologist Ryan charms readers with his account of attraction in the animal kingdom, including humans.

The idea that migrating birds navigate across continents and oceans with the help of an internal compass had been suggested a century earlier by a Russian zoologist, but attempts to prove it had failed.

«It's impressive enough that Vinther et al. managed to recreate the color pattern of a long - extinct dinosaur,» says zoologist Hannah Rowland of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the study.

Natarajan Ishwaran, director of the UNESCO Ecology and Earth Sciences division, says that the first UNESCO director - general, the distinguished zoologist Julian Huxley, fought hard to put science on UNESCO's agenda.

Inspired by a lonely glowworm, a British zoologist investigates how humans are disturbing mating rituals of the natural world.

► In a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this research.

The grisly practice of eating your own kind turns out to be widespread in the animal kingdom, a zoologist explains in this captivating look at cannibalism (SN: 2/18/17, p. 29).