evolutionary biologist

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evolutionary
adjective
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/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
relating to the way in which living things develop over millions ...
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biologist
noun[C]
uk
/baɪˈɒl.ə.dʒɪst/us
/baɪˈɑː.lə.dʒɪst/
a scientist who ...
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To economists, artefacts go to constitute capital; to anevolutionarybiologistthey are an important form of replicating entities.
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Theevolutionarybiologistis faced with the reverse task.
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This is a great book, by a greatevolutionarybiologist.
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He was not anevolutionarybiologist, yet he was the father of evolutionism.
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Someone who studies evolutionary biology is known as anevolutionarybiologist.
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Anevolutionarybiologistand paleontologist, he studies marine molluscs both as fossils and as living creatures.
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For example, anevolutionarybiologistwho is also a herpetologist may choose to work on an issue such as evolution of warning coloration coral snakes.
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If you want answers to moral questions then you don't ask the neurobiologist, you don't ask theevolutionarybiologist, you ask the philosopher.
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He is a theoretical population geneticist andevolutionarybiologist.
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In reality anevolutionarybiologistdefines all heritable changes to relative frequencies of the genes or indeed to epigenetic states in the gene pool as evolution.
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Understanding the evolution of progenesis in trematodes is thus an important challenge for evolutionary biologists and parasitologists.
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For orthodox evolutionary biologists, however, there are many possible substrates for selection on the brain; some will permit global changes, some will permit local ones.
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It is an appropriate contribution and many of the chapters will, through various reasons, provoke intense debate among vertebrate palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists.
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Evolutionary biologists assert, and it widely agreed, that characteristics of species, including those of behaviour, arise and persist through the process of natural selection.
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Clearly, spandrels - by products of structural constraints - requires more attention from evolutionary biologists.
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Evolutionary biologists have been able to reconcile altruism with selfishness by showing how a biological structure mediating altruistic behavior could have evolved.
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Taxonomists are concerned to explain the diversity of taxonomic units, but evolutionary biologists are concerned to explain the diversity of traits.
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The specificity of parasite-host interactions has received great attention by parasitologists and evolutionary biologists.
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Price ended his account with a list of authorities, including ethologists, evolutionary biologists, and anthropologists.
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