Word: naturalist
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Sheldon, the main academic advocate of somatotyping, grew up in rural Rhode Island. His father, a naturalist, judged county animal fairs and taught Sheldon how to classify living things, says Ellery Lanier, a former protege...
According to the Committee for the International Prize for Biology, "the special quality of Mayr as a researcher lies in the fact that he started as a naturalist and has continued, to his present age of 90, to be an observing and thinking naturalist...
...footage will be used as part of an hour-long video segment about Wilson, tentatively scheduled for release November 6. Wilson was selected as a subject because his autobiography, Naturalist, was just released, according to Craig Duff, senior producer for the CNN environmental Unit...
Indeed, "Germinal" real accomplishment is to show that naturalism doesn't translate well into film. When confined within a book, the excesses of naturalist imagery are effective, forcing each reader to envision even the most appalling sights. When overwhelming a movie, this excess--ceaselessly flogging the senses--deadens, and the audience emerges from the darkness of the film to the darkness outside stultified, not enlightened...
Loch Ness contains at most 30 tons of fish, nowhere near enough to support the presumably voracious appetite of the legendary Loch Ness monster, according to a comprehensive study of Loch Ness to be published in an upcoming issue of the Scottish Naturalist. The most likely explanation for the spate of sightings of the beast that began in 1868, says the study, is the presence in the lake of a school of sturgeon. Sturgeon can weigh up to 500 lbs.; their long snouts might be mistaken for monstrous necks, and their dorsal fins could appear to be humps...