Sentences with phrase «what other biologists»

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As I point out in Darwin on Trial, molecular biologists even now use the language of intelligent communication (information, libraries, translation) because there is no other way to depict what they are seeing.

What unites the sociologists, physicists, biologists, and other scientists studying networks is the recognition that «whether they're networks of people, computers, genes, [or] neurons, they often obey similar mathematical rules and have similar properties,» says Nicholas Christakis, a professor of sociology and of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

I went out there with marine biologists from all over the world in a Scripps Oceanographic Institution expedition trying to look at, you know, what would the baseline be for a truly healthy ocean that had not been overfished and overflushed with chemicals and all the other things that we dump into the ocean — and from those examples, I started to get an idea of what the world might look like without us, but then it occurred to me to really understand, I would also have to get a baseline for what was the world like before us.

Some biologists say that's because the designation offers no protection beyond what's provided by other parts of the act.

This latest study is one of only a few well - documented examples of what evolutionary biologists call «character displacement,» in which similar species competing with each other evolve differences to take advantage of different ecological niches.

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.

The SN 10: Scientists to Watch includes a laser physicist with laserlike focus, a materials scientist challenging what it means to be alive and a computational biologist willing to get personal with his microbiome, among many others

«This is done a lot within a traditional department at other universities, but in our case it's done across what would normally be different departments, where you would have a chemist, a biologist and a mathematician pitching in for one piece of equipment,» says Holdway.

The answer I give now is this: What's easier than either of these alternatives is for both the biologist and the mathematician to learn enough of each other's language to be able to talk to one another.

The interplay between fly and microbes has come to fascinate evolutionary biologists, as genes in both bacterium and host change across generations, sometimes breaking down or taking on odd functions, depending on what the other partner is doing.

«The percentage of cells that become insulin positive is remarkable and way above what others have reported,» says developmental biologist Palle Serup, who studies pancreas development at the Hagedorn Research Institute in Gentofte, Denmark.

Evolutionary biologists aren't sure why breasts evolved as they did — chimpanzees and other mammals develop them only when lactating — and no one knows what keeps them from sagging.

What struck Goffredi, a marine biologist at Occidental College, along with the 10 other scientists onboard was how different the life - forms at this site, called the Pescadero Basin, looked from those at a neighboring site.

Biologist David Baltimore of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who chaired the organizers of the 2015 NAS summit, says the report's recommendations essentially codify what the summit committee concluded based on the views of researchers and others.

«What's most interesting is how the follicle cells might be sensing each other,» says Gary Struhl, a molecular biologist at Columbia University, who works on a similar system in flies.

«We've paid little attention to what besides direct nutrition is being transmitted» in ants or other species, adds Diana Wheeler, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who was not involved with the work.

But now, said researcher David Lentink of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, «biologists and engineers are starting to talk with each other, and engineers are getting interested in what questions biologists would like to answer.»

While biologists have tracked how global warming has altered the developmental, migration, timing and other behavior in plants and animals, what makes this study unusual is the physical changes in the bees, said study co-author Candace Galen at the University of Missouri.

Embryonic» and «senescent» aren't supposed to go together any more than «good» and «grief» or other oxymorons, which is why biologist Robert Lanza was «devastated» when he saw what was happening with the human stem cells he and colleagues were trying to grow.

What may appear unusual for a wildlife biologist is only natural for Charu: «The people who share the habitat of snow leopards and other endangered species can be a threat to these animals, but they are also our most important partners in protecting them», he explains.

The biologist thus decides to venture into this strange new world herself, in order to try and find out exactly what happened to her significant other.

Sure enough, this is the same Peter P. Marra who, along with nine others (including Dauphiné and Cooper), authored a comment in Conservation Biology earlier this year, entitled «What Conservation Biologists Can Do to Counter Trap - Neuter - Return: Response to Longcore et al.» (the publication of which prompted a series of Vox Felina posts, beginning with this one).

What do other experts (and marine biologists in particular) think about this?

This figure is much more in line with what evolutionary biologists have found in other mammals, with regard to speciation and adaptation.

While biologists have tracked how global warming has altered the developmental, migration, timing and other behavior in plants and animals, what makes this study unusual is the physical changes in the bees, said study co-author Candace Galen at the University of Missouri.

Nasif Nahle (22:24:48): Seriously, I don't know why the WHO dictated that flu is now a pandemic You are a biologist and you know what you say on this issue, so: Are they making a prediction as the other UN agency IPCC?

What interests me in regard to accelerated anthropogenic ocean acidification and global temperature rise, which are being monitored by instrumentation worldwide, are the vast amounts of data reported and the longitudinal studies done by glaciologists, marine biologists, chemical oceanographers, botanists, climatologists, reef specialists, and their colleagues in other scientific disciplines.

We've got smart phones and smart meters and smart grids, and now biologists will have new «smart collars» that use GPS and accelerometer technology to track not only a wild animal's location but also how it is moving, when it is hunting, what it is hunting - in other words, these collars can tell us its every move.