"There is an immense risk of cognitive overload," explains Carl Pabo, a molecular biologist who studies cognition.
Along these lines, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins took the general step of suggesting that animals are the vehicles through which genes exploit to reproduce.
“It’s a very clear-cut case of re-evolution because of the large time span, ” said John Wiens, the Stony Brook biologist who authored the paper in the journal Evolution.
His father is a marine biologist.
The biologist Sydney Brenner chose the roundworm as an experimental animal in 1974 with this goal in mind.
"We already knew it was a kind of gelatinous, soft animal," said Marine biologist Rui Rosa of the University of Lisbon in Portugal, who led the study team.
"There's definitely a black market out there," says Richard Fitzpatrick, a filmmaker and Marine biologist who studies shark behavior on the Great Barrier Reef. "To what degree it is, we don't know."
You are listening to a Marine biologist Joe Pawlik at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Miss Lee said the idea to create the fabric came to her after a chance meeting with a biologist several years ago.
"They will eat almost every vertebrate of the right size, but they mostly prefer birds and mammals," said USGS biologist Gordon Rodda, who co-authored the 350-page study.
But his ideas were revived recently by Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary biologist who works at the University of New Mexico.
The scheme has been thought up by Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, together with Igor Aleinov and David Rind, climate modellers at Nasa.
Similarly, every time a biologist discovers a new species, there is the opportunity to honour someone or something.
German biologist who asserted that hereditary characteristics are transmitted by a germinal plasm.
"They might be tightly linked to the development of soil on land," said Dr. Baldauf, the Swedish biologist, who is analyzing the DNA of species discovered in the Eumycetozoan Project.
First author Camille Parmesan, a population biologist at the University of Texas in Austin, explains why.
At an Association for the Advancement of science meeting on the science of kissing, Helen Fischer, an evolutionary biologist, posits multiple reasons for lip locking.
Join biologist Zeb Hogan of the National Geographic Society's Megafishes Project as he explores the threats facing the giant sturgeon and the efforts underway to save it.