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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

"All I wanted was my job back," biologist Brown said.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 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

According to Chomsky, who has examined it as a biologist looks at live tissue, language “must simply be a biological property of the human mind.”

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

State biologists who monitor salmon nests in the Sacramento River estimated on Sept. 4 that about 20% of the eggs may not survive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

Yet, he argues, biologists have long sought to understand life by taking it apart, and we might also understand it by learning how to synthesize organisms from component parts.

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

As the program continued, facts began to accumulate from studies made by biologists of state and federal wildlife agencies and several universities.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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