Sentences with phrase «writes zoologist»

«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.»

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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.

But Oxford University zoologists writing in the current issue of the journal Science report that Betty, a captive crow, spontaneously performed an unexpected variation on this theme, coaxing a piece of straight wire into a hook to retrieve a small bucket of food.

For example, the British zoologist Richard Dawkins has written that: «Gullibility of the kind exploited by astrologers, evangelists, and other charlatans may be normal and healthy in a child, but it is unhealthy and reprehensive in an adult» (Skeptical Enquirer, vol 19, no 1, p35).

Among the biologists voicing dismay, zoologist Ferdinando Boero of University of Lecce wrote an open letter to Maiani questioning de Mattei's fitness for vice-president of CNR.

Testing a causal connection between flight ability and egg shape is tough «because of course we can't replay the whole tape of life again,» says Claire Spottiswoode, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge who wrote a commentary accompanying the study.

Zoologist Desmond Morris wrote in his Animal watching: A field guide to animal behaviour that «compared to many hoofed animals on the plains of Africa, they are remarkably mobile and noisy and never attempt to hide in cover».

In Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, zoologist Bill Schutt writes about cannibalism with a delightful mixture of humor and scholarship.

However, veteran zoologist Susan Crockford dismissed the findings, writing on her blog that she had been left «speechless» by the «skewed data» used in the study.

I am a Zoologist & author writing on cryptozoology (mystery animals) & zoomythology.