Sentences with phrase «achievement as a species»

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

As humans our greatest achievement as a species is the ability to create community.

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It is a far more remarkable achievement than merely canalizing energy flow through the human species, as by bringing wild lands under pasture, regardless of a declining rate of flow through the ecosystem as a whole.

«Major sporting events such as the Olympic Games highlight extraordinary human athletic achievements, performed by the extreme physical outliers of our species,» he wrote in the review.

The latest achievement of J. Craig Venter — rebooting a bacterial cell as a different species by giving it a man - made genetic instruction manual — is just one step on the long inevitable path into synthetic biology.

But if we ever do grow up as a new species there is an awful lot of good achievements that we could carry forth into a better world — perhaps a hundred, thousand years from now.