ecologist

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Costa is a noted Darwin scholar and evolutionary ecologist, as well as author of the soon-to-be-released "Darwin Line by Line: The Living Origin," an annotated version of "On the Origin of Species."

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  1. a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment.

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  1. a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment

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  • But Wire was something of an ecologist, as any long-term habitat dweller must needs be. —  Magazine - Aeon Authors - 2006 - Issue 07 - Aeon Seven
  • Steingraber is an ecologist, cancer survivor, expert on environmental links to cancer and human health, and author of 'Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.' —  Postbulletin.com Local News
  • When it comes to our own security, says one behavioral ecologist, there is much we can learn from biology and evolution. ...
  • Stanford ecologist, Peter Vitousek in a 1994 essay put nitrogen on the environmental map. —  AboutMyPlanet.com
  • As a lake ecologist (limnologist) my study will not contribute to debates about the causes of climate warming but it will show that the indirect effects of warming on food chains —  RealClimate
 

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