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part detective, part undertaker, fully obsessed with things that squirm, mutate, and refuse to behave
means A scientist who studies living things — how they work, grow, reproduce, and relate to one another, from bacteria to blue whales.
from Built from Greek bios, 'life,' plus -logia, 'the study of.' The word 'biology' itself only emerged around the turn of the 19th century, when scientists realized the sprawling business of living things needed its own name; before that they made do with 'natural history.' The agent noun 'biologist' followed naturally — the person who does the bios-logia.
- naming rights
- discover a species, you get to name it
- body count
- trillions of cells studied, all eventually dead anyway
- slime fan
- some spend careers worshipping bacteria older than continents
- field hazard
- famous ones have died from their own specimens
- deep time
- casually discuss billions of years like weekends