A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work. Biologists involved in applied research attempt to develop or improve medical, industrial or agricultural processes. Some biologists work in management positions coordinating or supervising reseach. Technicians perform specialized tasks using l ...

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List of biologists - Ba-Bi. Churchill Babington (1831-1881), British archaeologist and conchologist John Bachman (1790-1874), American naturalist Curt Backeberg (1894-1966), German botanist (abbr. in botany: Backeb.) Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876), embryology Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954),American botanist (abbr. in botany : L.H.Bailey) Spencer Fullerton Baird, (1823-1887), birds and mammals John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884), Scottish botanist (abb ...

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A morphogenetic field, according to biologist Rupert Sheldrake, is a biological and potentially social equivalent to an electromagnetic field that operates to shape the exact form of a living thing and may also shape its behaviour and coordination with other beings. This morphogenetic field provides a force that guides the development of an organism as it grows, making it take on a form similar to that of others in its species.

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A constructed wetland is an artificial marsh or swamp, created for human use, such as wastewater, storm water runoff or sewage treatment, as habitat to attract wildlife, or for land reclamation after mining or other disturbance. Natural wetlands act as biofilters, removing sediments and pollutants such as heavy metals from the water, and constructed wetlands can be designed to capitalize on this feature. Vegetation in a wetland provides a substrate (roots, stems, and leaves) upon which microorganisms that break down organic mat ...

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An idea created by French philosopher Henri Bergson, élan vital is usually translated as "vital force". It is a hypothetical force thought to cause the evolution and development of organisms. The British biologist Julian Huxley remarked that Bergson’s élan vital is no better an explanation of life than is explaining the operation of a railway engine by élan locomotif. Other related archivesBritish, French, Henri Bergson, Julian Huxley, biologist, development, evoluti

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Charles Benedict Davenport (June 1, 1866–February 18, 1944) was a prominent American biologist and eugenicist. Charles Davenport - Biography. Davenport was born in Stamford, Connecticut. He went to Harvard, 1892 getting a PhD in biology in 1892. He married in 1894. He became an instructor of Zoology at Harvard University. In his biological work, Davenport became known as one of the most prominent American biologists of his age, pioneering attempts at developing quantitative standards of tax ...

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Buffon's legacy is as direct and powerful as that of his monarch, Louis XVI. Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1749-1788: in 36 volumes, 8 additional volumes published after his death by Lacépà ...

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Brian C. Goodwin is a biologist. He teaches at the Schumacher College. Goodwin has advocated a unification of science and the humanities. Brian Goodwin - Books. Temporal Organization in Cells and Analytical Physiology How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity Form and Transformation: Generative and Relational Principles in Biology Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology ...

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Alfred Ploetz (March 22, 1860 – March 20, 1940) was a German physician, biologist, eugenicist known for introducing the concept of racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene). He was born in Swinemünde, Germany. Ploetz first proposed the ideology of racial hygiene in his "Racial Hygiene Basics" (Grundlinien einer Rassenhygiene) in 1895. In 1905, Ploetz founded the German Society for Racial Hygiene (Deutsche Gesell ...

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Double Bind is a communicative situation where a person receives different or contradictory messages. The term was coined by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, and was an attempt to suggest a possible mechanism or underpinning for schizophrenia from an anti-biologist perspective (in other words to proffer an explanation without requiring the assumption of organic brain dysfunction). The phenomenon ...

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The hood may refer to: People: "Admiral Hood" refers to several officers of the Royal Navy. John Bell Hood (1831–1879) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War Glenda Hood is an American politician and is currently the secretary of state for Florida. Leroy Hood is an American biologist who was involved in the race to sequence the human genome. Raymond Hood was an early twentieth-century art deco architect. Robin Hood was an English folk hero who origin

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Biological immortality can be defined as the absence of a sustained increase in rate of mortality as a function of chronological age. A cell or organism that does not experience, or at some future point will cease, aging is biologically immortal. There is no organism or individual cell that is literally immortal. Any "immortal" cell or organism can be killed by cutting or crushing. Biologists have chosen the word immortal to designate cells that do not undergo cellular sensecence (the state wherein c ...

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Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (born 1942) is a controversial British biologist and author. He developed a hypothesis of morphogenetic fields, and has produced related research and publications, on topics such as animal and plant development and behaviour, telepathy, perception and metaphysics. He has a popular public following, particularly because of his books aimed at the general reader, but he is shunned by many in the scientific establishment, who often consider his work as bordering on New Age thinking. Taking science "as a set of methods ...

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Autopoiesis literally means "self-production" (from the Greek: auto - αυτό for self- and poiesis - ποίησις for creation or production) and expresses a fundamental complementarity between structure and function. The term was originally introduced by Chilean biologists Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana in the early 1970s: "An autopoietic machine is a machine organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production (transformation and destruction) of components which: (i) throug ...

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A biological adaptation is an anatomical structure, physiological process or behavioral trait of an organism that has evolved over a period of time by the process of natural selection such that it increases the expected long-term reproductive success of the organism. The term adaptation is also sometimes used as a synonym for natural selection, but most biologists discourage this usage. Adaptation can be viewed as taking place over geological time, or ...

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Allopatric speciation, also known as geographic speciation, occurs when populations physically isolated by an extrinsic barrier evolve intrinsic (genetic) reproductive isolation such that if the barrier between the populations breaks down, individuals of the two populations can no longer interbreed. Although there is some debate about the frequency of other types of speciation (such as sympatric speciation and parapatric speciation), all evolutionary biologists ...

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WWF, the global conservation organization, was originally known as World Wildlife Fund. In 1986, it changed its name to World Wide Fund For Nature (except in the US and Canada) to better represent the spread of its work. It was founded on September 11, 1961 by, among others, the biologist Sir Julian Huxley, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Max Nicholson and the naturalist and painter Sir Peter Scott who designed the original black and white panda logo. It is one of the world's largest environmental organizations, with ...

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Dahl may mean: Dal, a type of Indian food People named Dahl: Anders Dahl, a biologist and a botanist Ingolf Dahl, a German-born American composer of Swedish ancestry Johann Christian Dahl, Norwegian artist Jøran Dahl, a Norwegian musician known for his crazy lyrics and beautiful melodies Jon Dahl Tomasson, a Danish football (soccer) player Kurt Dahle, a drummer for the Canadian Indie Rock group The New Pornographers Louise Dahl-Wolfe, a photographer<

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Darwinism is a term for the underlying theory in the ideas of Charles Darwin, particularly concerning evolution and natural selection. Discussions of Darwinism usually focus on evolution by natural selection. The term is mostly used by its enemies. As biologist E.O. Wilson has noted, "Scientists don't call it 'Darwinism'." [Newsweek Nov 28, 2005] Darwinism - Darwinism and other -isms. The term "Darwinism" is most commonly used by creationists as a somewhat derogatory term for "evolutionary bio ...

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