Sentences with phrase «thoughts on biology»

Over the years Jules has developed a body of work dealing primarily with animal imagery and thoughts on biology, ecology, mythology, and transformation.

Thus, Developmental Science has roots in both the biological and social disciplines and can bee seen as a meta - theory rooted in developmental principles to guide work and thinking on biology and social behaviour and their interactions over ontogeny.

Not exact matches

Probably you've moved on from this post, and I will too — but I don't think by «been there, done that» you meant «read about and understood many things about evolutionary biology and paleontology».

I think there is a natural inclination towards differences based on biology and this affecting how we are as men and women.

Jack: You asked my opinion about arguing for biology to determine roles, and I said I didn't think that was on the table anymore.

Acknowledging that Darwin's book «was thought by many to have an injurious bearing on the argument from design,» Cooke's idea was to bypass biology entirely, thereby eluding the grasp of Darwin's invisible hand.

As biology, for example, moves forward on its frontier at the molecular level, religion has a new way opened up for it also, just as evolutionary biology opened up a whole new province for religious thinking about creation.

«Dawkins» belief that this is a blindly indifferent universe is a piece of wishful thinking -LSB-...] In fact, though evolutionary biology itself, as a scientific discipline, is silent on the subject of God's existence, it provides a quite remarkable array of data which strongly suggests the existence of at least an extremely wise and powerful designer.

Ultimately our son chose a university based on the quality of the programs he thinks he wants to pursue (math, biology, research), learning community opportunities, cost, and which school offered him the most attractive scholarship.

«Building on a well - established knowledge base more than half a century in the making, recent advances in the science of early childhood development and its underlying biology provide a deeper understanding that can inform and improve existing policy and practice, as well as help generate new ways of thinking about solutions.

CHRISTINE STEWART FITZGERALD: So it sounds like you're looking at it from the biological standpoint and I think incorporating what we talked about earlier, some of those different cycles on looking at their individual needs and you can kind of customize that because I think you know, kind of what Jen said earlier is that there's a lot of different books out there that will talk about the new onesies of each of these but as a parent, I think you just have to find what works for you and their biology is going to be different and their temperaments are different and it's not a one size fits all approach.

Holding a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Baroda in India, he thought that his research on the «regression of feathers» in birds could add to the understanding of hair growth and loss in humans.

«What we really want to do in this workshop is think about the future,» said John Priscu of Montana State University, an expert on the biology of cold climates who is co-chairing the workshop.

Kandel: It's a pedantic point and that is the biology of the mind suggests that there is a limited set of functions that's localized at a particular point in the brain; while mind refers to the whole family of mental processes, every thought that you have, every feeling that you express, every dream that you aspire to, and it works on the assumption that these are going to be localized in a variety of each one of these functions, it's going to be localized in a variety of different areas in the brain.

They thought that unique yellow might depend not on the biology of the eye but on the color of the natural world.

«When we did the study, we thought polyploidy would be bad for asexuals, but we didn't find any evidence of that,» says Maurine Neiman, associate professor of biology at the UI and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.

A 57 - year - old high school biology teacher — «I'm on the front lines of the evolution issue,» he says — he describes his religion as «Einsteinian / Spinozan,» lives surrounded by books, loves dancing and blues guitar, and lists his greatest sources of enjoyment as «kids, thinking clearly and critically, walking in the woods.»

But according to Halberg, the Norwegian research on blue tits deviates even further from traditional thinking within evolutionary biology than Hrdy's theories do.

«People used to think — and some still do — that gender development and behavior is based either on a person's biology or social environment,» Berenbaum said.

«Honestly, I thought I should have gotten in a while ago,» says Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California at San Francisco, whose two decades of research since the 1980s on the developmental biology of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans finally earned her a place in the National Academy.

In this article, a rough draft of which appears below, Kauffman and his colleagues Stefan Thurner and Rudolph Hanel detail some of their thinking on the subject, which is sure to raise the hackles of some members of the economic community just as their ideas on biology have ruffled some scientific feathers.

As an undergraduate biology major at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Niyogi focused on molecular and cell biology and thought about immunology or transcription factors as a potential field of study.

«If you think about the worst invasive species, ants frequently show up on those lists, and big - headed ants are among the most problematic,» said University of Illinois entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez, who led the new study with postdoctoral researcher Bill Wills.

The basics of glycogen biology are thought to be well established, but a study in rodents published July 5th in the journal Cell Metabolism turns long - standing assumptions on their head.

And I think that's exciting and I think that's a trend that we'll see as people look at different areas where their biology, their science, their innovation can help, but they have to turn on the lights, pay their employees, and if they're a publicly - traded company, answer to their shareholders.

At the symposium, Matthew Teasdale, a postdoc in Dan Bradley's lab at Trinity College in Dublin, reported on the biology of another valuable text: the York Gospels, thought to have been written around 990 C.E. DNA from this book's eraser shavings showed that, aside from some sheep, its pages were mostly calfskin — mainly from female calves, which was unexpected because cows were usually allowed to grow up to bear offspring.

I had started a postdoc working on human pregnancy, and many of my friends thought it was hilarious that a vet with a PhD in deer reproductive biology was suddenly working in a human maternity department.

Included are talks on mechanisms of aging in a wide range of established and non-traditional animal models with the key objective to enhance understanding of the basic biology behind experimental and lifestyle manipulations thought to have direct translational application to human aging.

During the course of our work, the studies of Jim Rothman, who received a Lasker Award in 2002 for his work on the cell biology of vesicle fusion, expanded our thinking and injected great enthusiasm into the rapidly growing field of neurotransmitter release.

The ASPB public engagement activities Katie directs focus on encouraging plant biology as a career choice as well as «eradicating plant blindness» with resources and programs that trigger thinking critically about the ways plants are integral to everyone's daily life and a sustainable future.

A new poll conducted by Hart Research Associates and the Synthetic Biology Project finds that two - thirds of Americans think that synthetic biology should move forward, but with more research to study its possible effects on humans and the environment.

Written by Rejeski and Dr. Jessica Mazerik, the guide offers thoughts on both the communication process and message content for scientists, public information officers and others discussing the benefits and risks of synthetic biology.

«We do think this has some therapeutic relevance, where an inhibitors of this enzyme would have effects on the cells we identified that tend to overexpress this enzyme,» says Sabatini, who is also a biology professor at MIT.

Succinct and readable Reviews and Opinions on basic research topics provide instant overviews of current thinking and new developments in plant biology.

This vision was first elucidated by Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, who proposed in 1959 that «The problems of chemistry and biology can be greatly helped if our ability to see what we are doing, and to do things on an atomic level, is ultimately developed — a development which I think can not be avoided.»

«Chemistry tends to dominate the way we think about medicine, but it has become clear that physical and mechanical factors play very critical roles in regulating biology,» said David Mooney, the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at SEAS and Wyss Institute Core Faculty member, senior author on the new study.

Thought leaders from the United States and Europe will explore the implications of the synthetic biology's rapid emergence during the 2009 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing,....

«We originally thought the bed bugs might prefer red because blood is red and that's what they feed on,» said study co-author Corraine McNeill, assistant professor of biology at Union College in Nebraska, in a statement.

I think it's presumptuous for us to think that we can determine their diet on such sketchy evidence and even arrogant if we insist on specific evolutionary dogma the way my molecular cell biology professor does.

With a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology with an emphasis on infectious disease I armed myself with the latest research and expanded my critical thinking skills and ability to read and understand peer - reviewed journal articles.

In response, I would first offer the argument, who do you think knows more about the small intestine and colon — a surgeon, who regularly operates on said organs, or some hippy who spent more time in high school biology class hitting the bong than paying attention to the material?

A few years on, her latent curiosity was crystallized at graduate school: «I thought to myself that if there's any part of human behaviour rooted in biology it would be our reproductive strategies.

Free science and math simulations for teaching STEM topics, including physics, chemistry, biology, and math, from University of Colorado Boulder Ok, I am confused... I thought guys were totally into the text versus actually talking on the phone.

Author's note: I just spent hours researching equine physiology, biology and psychology on websites I never thought I'd ever visit.

We can all think about what it's like to read, say, an abstract of an article on cellular biology, if you're not a cellular biologist — or an account of a cricket match, if you're unfamiliar with the game.

Erik is looking for the following: literary / upmarket fiction with an emphasis on plot (as in, nothing too slow / quiet / static); popular and academic / trade science nonfiction, especially evolutionary biology; narrative history and biography; contemporary culture criticism (think Klosterman); sports books, if it's got a scope that extends past just games and players and into culture / larger issues.

I found one such book on a friend's shelf that was clearly spawned from the Sparkly Vampire craze (think fallen angels in biology instead) and read several chapters allowed — I laughed so hard I cried, and it was not meant to be funny.

Exclude meteorology even, not just biology, engineering, astronomy, particle physics,... But should include all lobbying efforts by the companies, since they wouldn't waste money on lobbying if they didn't think it would work and wouldn't miss out countering works that would see their revenue sink like a stone.

«The commission thinks it imprudent either to declare a moratorium on synthetic biology until all risks can be determined and mitigated, or to simply «let science rip,» regardless of the likely risks,» the report says.

This is amateur kibitzing on my part but I think it's very interesting to look at the climate as an outgrowth of Earth's biology — mostly oceanic biology — which we're barely beginning to do.