Sentence examples for human ecologist from inspiring English sources

So he tapped Gary Machlis, a human ecologist and science policy expert, to serve as the first-ever science adviser to the NPS director.

Intrigued by anecdotal 19th century reports that children born out of wedlock were less often boys, human ecologist Karen Norberg of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, waded through data on 86,436 children born in the United States between 1959 and 1998.

A team led by human ecologist Thomas Dietz of Michigan State University in East Lansing restricted their analysis to actions that can be undertaken with on-the-shelf technology at either no cost or with very positive payback for any upfront costs, and that don't involve changes in lifestyle.

Until now, no study has calculated the total amount of carbon emissions that would be slashed via these measures, the likelihood that people will undertake them, and how many households have already implemented each item, says human ecologist Edward Vine of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, who was not involved in the research.

In essence, the exploration of, migration to, settlement of, and adaptation to the many and diverse environments of the New World provides anthropologists, historians, cultural geographers, human ecologists, demographers, etc., with what amounts to a laboratory in which they can study the myriad ways in which people create ways to live.

Dr. Robin Dunbar, a human behavioral ecologist at the University of Liverpool, said he agreed that women "do seem better adapted" to moving between groups, but he was not convinced that human societies had always practiced patrilocality, the system of women leaving home.

That's "a real exceptional feature of Homo sapiens," notes Kim Hill, a human behavioral ecologist also at ASU who has studied small-scale tribal societies in South America.

"It shows on a grand scale that the replacement of foraging by farming has a huge impact on who we are and what the world was like," says human behavioral ecologist Eric Smith of the University of Washington, Seattle.

"The study of religion has been plagued in many ways by an abundance of ideas and a shortage of strong quantitative tests of these ideas," says human behavior ecologist Richard Sosis of the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Brooke Scelza, a human behavioral ecologist at at UCLA's Anthropology Department, argues that multiple mating may be a way of hedging women's bets in an unstable environment.

The Big Model is the holy grail for certain ardent Darwinists and human behavioral ecologists.