It is not part of the natural order of things, but is continuously shaped by a broad range of human decisions that are not altogether rational or substantively just and that could be made to be more so. (firstthings.com)
The earliest streams of Romantic modernism found this source in a high view of Nature, with the person as part of the natural order. (firstthings.com)
This scientific evidence appears to contradict widely shared and consensually validated, perhaps preternatural thought that, when it comes to human population dynamics, the human species is not part of the natural order of living things and somehow, inexplicably, apparently exempt from the known «laws» of biophysical reality. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)