naturalist
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The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had the wrong idea about the way evolution works.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
This is a delicate, confidently imagined fiction made with the eyes of a naturalist, the heart of a believer in family, and a sensibility with room for both the Pythonesque and the Lynchian.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
Floyd might also be staying hydrated with rain puddles, Janet Kessler, a self-taught naturalist who has been documenting coyote behaviour in San Francisco for about 20 years, told the BBC's US media partner CBS.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
Roughly three centuries ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to catalog and name every living organism he could find.
From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025
A curious naturalist traveling from the Galápagos to England—a Darwin in reverse—might have been astonished to find that each region had its own species of cow.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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