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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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"There have been happy tears in my office because this is what nature should be," said conservation biologist Marissa Parrott.

From Barron's ● 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

Shokat, a chemical biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, co-founded RevMed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

For William Bateson, the English biologist, the conversion took about an hour—the time spent on a speeding train between Cambridge and London in May 1900.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

P-22 was first discovered living in Griffith Park by a group of biologists in 2012, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

New research from evolutionary biologists at Syracuse University, University of Siena, Italy, and University of Szeged, Hungary, points to a more complex picture.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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

Indeed, armed with microscopes, cell biologists had become accustomed to a cellular world in which visible structures performed identifiable functions within cells.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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