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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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"You can swim for hours and hours along the reef in the lagoon, just skeleton after skeleton. It's all dead," said marine biologist Austin Bowden-Kerby, who visited last year and documented the devastation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Mr. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

More commonly found in the colder waters off Scotland, a marine biologist said although the lion's main sting was "nasty", it was not dangerous.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Asked, for instance, if he meows to his cats, Jonathan B. Losos, an evolutionary biologist and author of the book, “The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved From the Savanna to Your Sofa,” wouldn’t deny it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

He had thought he might end up as biologist or a mathematician.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

For more than six decades, evolutionary biologists have debated whether an unusual genetic system shared by ants, bees and wasps helped drive one of nature's most sophisticated forms of social organization: eusociality.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

Wildlife officials said biologists responded to the location and conducted an assessment of the mountain lion after it was tranquilized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

And the author draws on the warning of Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologists who cautioned against reading every trait as a perfect adaptation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Its variety and complexity has fascinated biologists, but with so many different songs, it has been difficult to study on a global scale.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

To biologists, the apparent fertility of the upland forest is a sham.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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