Word: ecologists
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...least two areas of the park, opening up ecological breathing room for foxes and other species. Even highland vegetation, no longer chewed up by hungry elk, is expected to start making a comeback. "We're seeing beneficial effects from the top down," says Robert Crabtree, a wildlife ecologist. "Who knows how far it will...
...Fifth Republic in 1958, winning only 29.9 percent of the vote, with 6.5 percent taken by independent rightist parties. The opposition Left, meanwhile, won 40.6 percent of the popular vote, among which 23.7 percent was for the Socialists, 10 percent for the Communists and 6.9 percent for ecologist parties. French financial markets tumbled and the franc slipped Monday morning on the fear that a victorious Left could scale down Juppe's recent economic reforms and plans to privatize the majority of France's government-controlled companies. The run-off vote is needed because in a majority of the 577 legislative...
...late 20th century who has explored the workings of the cosmos from the altitude of anthills. Wilson, 67, has used the study of minute creatures as a springboard for two crucial ideas. The first, expounded in 1967 in The Theory of Island Biogeography, which he wrote with the late ecologist Robert MacArthur, provides the scientific bedrock for understanding the decline of ecosystems. The second concept, laid out in his 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, argues that social behaviors ranging from warfare to altruism have a genetic component. Cornell biologist Thomas Eisner describes Wilson as one of the "prime synthesizing...
...seems to know--that the Maoist guerrilla movement Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, is gaining control in the region. To underscore this point, Vargas Llosa inserts flashes of Sendero violence throughout the early portion of his narrative: the stoning to death of two young French tourists and a prominent ecologist visiting from Lima; the slaughter of a herd of vicunas being raised as a cash crop for the local economy; the invasion of a village in which residents are persuaded to massacre one another...
...strode the earth in millenniums past are still discovered almost perfectly preserved in the permafrost meat locker. Many believe the present-day Yakutian horse is itself a throwback to the era of the ice ages. With such conflation of past and present, it seems almost reasonable when one Russian ecologist, Sergei Zimov, suggests that a "Pleistocene Park" could be established using the DNA magic of its Jurassic movie counterpart. Some scientists believe the mammoth could be brought back by inserting readily available, naturally refrigerated mammoth DNA into an elephant embryo...