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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

I’m a public health policy and communications strategist and a former molecular biologist, so I’m often asked for help making health decisions.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

This concept, known as antagonistic pleiotropy, was proposed by biologist Peter Medawar in 1952 as an explanation for aspects of aging.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

When Peter shared their findings with other researchers, a fellow biologist was skeptical of Peter’s claim that a tiny difference in beak size could determine whether a finch lives or dies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Centuries later, the biologist Max Delbrück would joke that Aristotle should have been given the Nobel Prize posthumously—for the discovery of DNA.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Rosemary and Peter Grant, a married pair of evolutionary biologists who studied songbirds on Daphne Major, a small volcanic island in the Galápagos archipelago, are the subjects of Jonathan Weiner’s “The Beak of the Finch.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

Marine biologists and fisheries scientists believe human influence is the main cause - impact on climate; hydropower systems that eels have to migrate through; pollution and contamination; introduction of exotic parasites; and overfishing.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Dr. Noble conducted the research with an international team of mathematical biologists.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

Evolutionary biologists have recently been developing ever more sophisticated methods for drawing conclusions from comparisons of different plants and animals of known evolutionary histories.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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