Sentences with phrase «which modern biologists»

Again, to speak of another criticism which modern biologists often make of Bergson, I think that we are not to take his formulation of élan vital simply as a statement of a vital principle to explain the history of life, as George Gaylord Simpson seems to assume.

Not exact matches

With the help of modern genetic technology and the resources of the International Rice GeneBank, which contains more than 112,000 different types of rice, evolutionary biologist Kenneth Olsen, PhD, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been able to look back in time and ask whether the same mutations underlay the emergence of the same traits in both cultivated and weedy rice.

Just as biologists reconstruct extinct species, and archaeologists reconstruct ancient societies, linguists can reconstruct the pronunciation of ancient from modern words and show which languages have developed from the same ancestor.

The paper «provides the first evidence of the relative size of the brains and which parts were initially enlarging during critical stages in the evolution of modern mammalian brains,» says biologist R. Glenn Northcutt of the University of California (UC), San Diego.

The block includes series such as Xploration Awesome Planet, hosted by Philippe Cousteau, grandson of legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau, Xploration Outer Space, hosted by NASA scientist Emily Calandrelli, and Nature Knows Best, hosted by marine biologist Danni Washington which showcases biomimicry in modern technology and innovative design.