What is "evolutionary biologists"

Usage examples of "evolutionary biologists".

Botanists have plants whose passionate emotional lives can be monitored with He detectors, anthropologists have surviving ape-men, zoologists have extant dinosaurs, and evolutionary biologists have Biblical literalists snapping at their flanks.

For evolutionary biologists there is something very special about the classification of living organisms, something that is not true of any other kind of taxonomy.

But we can still resort to another powerful technique preferred by evolutionary biologists for solving such problems.

In 1967 a symposium was held at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia to debate them, with a dazzling array of fifty-two attendees from the ranks of the leading evolutionary biologists and skeptical mathematicians.

Thus, the difficulties historians face in establishing cause-and-effect relations in the history of human societies are broadly similar to the difficulties facing astronomers, climatologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, geologists, and paleontologists.

That is one of the reasons some evolutionary biologists think birds evolved from dinosaurs.

Evelyn Smith was one of the premier evolutionary biologists of her time.

Now, evolutionary biologists no longer considered man the apotheosis of evolution, but merely the dead end of a minor side branch of a generalist, less-evolved subgroup of Mammalia.

Some evolutionary biologists think we may in part have grown big brains to gossip, stitching up our social fabric.

But most evolutionary biologists believe that the species, more likely than not, is an extremely rare example of sweeping transgenic hybridization.

Long unfashionable, even ridiculed (Dawkins, 1976), Zahavi's theory has recently been cleverly rehabilitated (Grafen, 1990 a, b) and is now taken seriously by evolutionary biologists (Dawkins, 1989).