"studying life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process of reflecting and learning from life experiences, especially in a metaphorical sense. For example, "He was dedicated to studying life and finding its deeper meaning."
It is thought she had been studying life in rural India for some time.
"These stars," Dr. Charbonneau said, "are our only hope for studying life in the universe in the coming decades".
While both biologies were important for studying life, Dobzhansky made it clear that Cartesian biology could only be understood in terms of Darwinian biology and not vice versa.
Carmack and other oceanographers have been studying life on the sea bottom and the changes that are occurring as a result of early ice melt.
Dan McAdams, a Northwestern psychology professor who has spent his career studying life stories, describes identity as "the internalized and evolving story that results from a person's selective appropriation of past, present and future". This isn't just academic jargon.
"When we first started studying life stories, people thought it was just idle curiosity — stories, isn't that cool?" said Dan P. McAdams, a professor of psychology at Northwestern and author of the 2006 book, "The Redemptive Self".
The importance of studying life-long changes in cognitive functions, though acknowledged, has not yet been adequately addressed [2].
Consistency with evidence from external datasets indicated the potential validity of these measures for studying life-course SEP in population surveys.
The basic data for studying life-history trait covariation between strains were the estimates at the replicate level of 14 parameters (Table 2).
Agreement within sets of questions and consistency with evidence from external datasets indicated the potential validity of these measures for use in studying life-course SEP in cross-sectional population surveys of older people.
In understanding how agricultural selective pressures shape AMF communities, the concept of r-selection (Pianka 1970) as a framework for studying life-history evolution, particularly for microbial ecology (Fierer et al. 2007; Sykorova et al. 2007), can be useful.
