Sentences with phrase «about human survival»

Carrying strong messages about human survival, each figure maintains an inner strength and personal singularity.

A multidialogical intent will allow Christian womanist theologians to advocate and participate in dialogue and action with many diverse social, political, and religious communities concerned about human survival and productive quality of life for the oppressed.

Science is the only truth, and if we truly care about human survival, Fact not Novels should be what guide our decision making.

Not exact matches

By discovering more about their survival tricks, the researchers hope to learn more ways to protect human cells from damage.

As Gates recognises, in the first instance humans have evolved to feel fear above any other emotion; it's all about survival..

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

She doesn't have the least interest in our god - given human hunger for meaning and transcendent values all Mother Nature cares about is the survival of the species which requires getting the DNA from one generation to the next and providing for the young until they are self - sufficient enough to sustain their own lives and we are the venue.

Furthermore, if we recall that to be human is to be social, so that our relationship with others is integral to and largely constitutive of our own identity, then our thought about survival of death must be very different from the highly individualistic view so popular in the past.

But it is significant that an entire book could be written in 1977 about the practical meaning of a theology of hope without discussing the relevance to that practical meaning of the serious doubtfulness of human survival.

World citizenship can be widely extended among all people through the application of the principles of mental health... the problem of world citizenship in relation to human survival needs to be formulated afresh in the light of new knowledge about aggressiveness in man, group tensions and resentments, race prejudices and nationalist sentiments and stereotypes.

Similarly, Charles Birch of Sydney spoke on «Creation, Technology and Human Survival» and told the Assembly that our goal must be a just and sustainable society; and this demands a fundamental change of heart and mind about humankind's relation to nature.

For our survival and well - being, Wilson says, we need a consensus about our origins, our nature as human beings, our place in the natural world and our purpose, or what it is that makes life worth living.

It is significant that an entire book could be written in 1970 about the practical meaning of a theology of hope without discussing the relevance to that practical meaning of the serious doubtfulness of human survival.

Even talk about a possible survival can not deny that patent fact, once we have understood the total organic, psycho - somatic, nature of our human existence.

For me, empathy is an existential question — it's about the survival of the human race.»

Attachment theory is a theory about relationships, based on the idea that human beings evolved in kinship groups and that human survival was enhanced by the maintenance of secure bonds between parents and children and with members of the wider group [i](Holmes, 1993).

Human culture is about survival of the friendliest, says anthropologist John Edward Terrell — and Westerners could learn from more traditional societies

Scientists working on crops in silico anticipate the growing potential of this young field, and what they will learn about foods essential to human survival.

Around the same time, another psychiatrist, John Bowlby, penned his now - canon observations about the central importance of attachment for the social and psychological development of young humans, reminding us that we are just another part of a chain of mammals that depend on the care of others for survival.

Although the findings by two independent research groups allay fears of a threat to humans, they heighten concerns about the survival of the imperiled species.

Darwin even nursed doubts about the very survival of human beings.

Poor survival of in vitro embryos may have contributed to the pessimistic view about natural human embryo survival, says Dr Jarvis.

«We now know much more about metabolic reprogramming of cancerous tissues in human patients, particularly that the activation of pyruvate carboxylase is important to lung cancer cell growth and survival,» said Fan, UK professor of toxicology and faculty member of the Markey Cancer Center and CESB at the University of Kentucky.

He sees a cautionary tale about the dangers to human survival, and yet the planets he studies have made him unexpectedly bullish on life's cosmic prospects.

For example, while Joy focuses on direct threats to human survival (such as bioterrorism), Kass, who is chairman of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, is more concerned about subtle ways in which our quest for technological mastery could undermine the foundations of human dignity.

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

If that climate scenario is combined with habitat restoration efforts, particularly those aimed at connecting habitats that have been fragmented by human activity, the average population has a much higher probability of survival — about 50 %.

Express strong concern about the increasing threats arising from growing human footprint and climate change to the survival of snow leopards and associated mountain biodiversity and to the maintenance of watershed and ecosystem services their habitats provide;

The new discovery may reveal details about the settlement, survival techniques and technology of ancient humans.

The human body cares about one thing and one thing only, survival.

As we begin to think about autophagy in general, and the specific mechanisms of mitophagy, the genius of the human body's innate natural survival adaptations reveal themselves in quite remarkable ways.

I'm talking of course about vitamin B12, or does no one else seem to see that if you have to supplement your diet with a visit to GNC, your diet is obviously NOT SUITABLE FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL???

But the survival thriller from writer / director Trey Edward Shults, set sometime after the ravages of an unnamed and unexplained plague have ripped through the cities and sent survivors into the isolation of the wilderness, isn't about monsters (human or otherwise) who hunt in the dark.

«Everest» should be a harrowing story about survival, ambition and the human spirit, but it's really none of those things, only ever scratching the surface of the story.

Why, for example, do we learn so little about the Dark Tower itself, if this spiky edifice is meant to be the central pillar undergirding human survival?

A riveting story about the survival of love and the human spirit in a time of war.

From director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs) comes a lightning - paced, heart - pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind... but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.

He reveals techniques in the editing room, finding the human moments within Jobs and why he's drawn to telling stories about struggle and survival.

In this taut and emotionally convincing narrative, Eva Hornung explores universal themes of the human condition: the importance of home, what it means to belong to a family, the consequences of exclusion, and what our animal nature can teach us about survival.

«A hauntingly rich WWII novel about courage, brutality, love, survival — and the essence of what makes us human.»

Despite his belief that he knows everything and you are there to meet his needs, your pooch really knows very little about survival in the human world and needs your guidance in order to keep him from harming himself.

International Wolf Project http://www.wolf.org The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wild lands and the human role in their future.

Because our work is on the frontline, we see first - hand the impact human interference has on the survival issues that marine mammals face, and we listen to their messages about their health and the health of the ocean.

On the surface, the story is about a company performing illegal experiments and it quickly escalates into human torture, religious cults, and supernatural forces as your search for the truth turns into a vicious fight for survival.

Survival is a great way to train for OverRun matches without having to worry about going up against other humans who have superior skills to your own.

And that just makes everything far more horrific... Knowing that they were once normal humans living various different kinds of lives (some not so nice), everything about the horror and survival aspect switches gears.

In considering feral children, who are fully human, at least at the start of their lives, how can we not look at my images and question and wonder about the tenacious survival instincts of these human beings.»

Exploration of the space frontier is ultimately about survival of the human species.

Sacrificing brevity (as usual), and allowing for a reasonable amount of imprecision for present purposes: Morality itself is most foundationally «about» the sustainable and healthy survival of the human species along with healthy biological diversity and along with the sustainable health of our home, planet Earth, all accomplished in a way that respects human equality in important senses.

Morality itself (in the broad scientific - philosophical sense of the term) is most foundationally «about» the sustainable and healthy survival of the human species along with plentiful biological diversity along with the sustainable health of our home, planet Earth, all accomplished in a way that respects human equality (in important senses) and embraces a living and somewhat fragile planet.