But neither Crick nor any other modern biologist has approached Einstein's extra- scientific reputation.
Dr. Gould achieved a fame unprecedented among modern evolutionary biologists.
And there are some biologists today who say that Darwin in all his vagueness, not modern biologists, had the definition right.
When modern biologists refer to "rats", they almost always mean Rattus norvegicus.
Most modern evolutionary biologists accept that the idea is consistent with many processes in evolution.
What modern biologists see as the theory's most important contributions were subordinated to a contemporary philosophy encouraging struggle and exploitation.
Such indirect arguments are scorned by modern biologists, but at the turn of the century they were the mainstay of support for an active Lamarckian movement.
To a modern biologist, the puzzle is the cost of a tail.
As a result, he is said to have eaten more birds of paradise than any other modern biologist.
Schieffelin himself is seen by modern biologists as "an eccentric at best, a lunatic at worst."