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...farmer to appreciate the predators that eat the animals he raises. But Miguel Medialdea is hardly an ordinary farmer. Looking out on to the carpet of flamingos that covers one of the lagoons that make up Veta la Palma, the fish farm in southern Spain where he is biologist, Medialdea shrugs. "They take about 20% of our annuel yield," he says, pointing at a blush-colored bird as it scoops up a sea bass. "But that just shows the whole system is working...
...graduate student after his sophomore year in college. And conducting field work in the Caribbean would be one of many college forays that would be repeated once he returned to Harvard over twenty years later as an esteemed professor.Freshman year, Losos took an evolutionary biology course taught by celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson that would convince him to pursue his passion in organismic biology. Losos now teaches that same course, with an updated syllabus.—Staff writer Laura G. Mirviss can be reached at lmirviss@fas.harvard.edu...
...watching certain types of pornography can increase better sperm: "A 2005 Australian study showed that, when men looked at pornographic images of two men and a woman together, they produced significantly better quality sperm than when they looked at images of just women. Evolutionary biologist Leigh Simmons, one of the researchers on the study, stated that "males ejaculate more sperm, or sperm of better quality, when the risk of sperm competition is high." (See pictures of the best Bond girls...
...over the centuries, but influence remains a mysterious force and a difficult one to measure. That's part of the reason the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world is so diverse and eclectic. How do you gauge the influence of a molecular biologist vs. that of a politician, weigh the relative impact of a tennis player and a fashion designer or an architect and a minister? You can't, of course, and we don't try. But we look for people whose ideas, discoveries, talent and, yes, power shape and transform our world. These...
Charles Gibson The anchor of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson serves on Princeton's board of trustees Shirley Tilghman is the first female president of Princeton University. In addition to providing outstanding leadership of that institution, she is an accomplished molecular biologist, championing research and promoting women in science and engineering...