Sentences with phrase «common human trait»

Anyway, denialism is, according to the book, a common human trait — we should all know somebody who deny one thing thing or another.

Focusing on the negative is unfortunately a common human trait, but it doesn't have to be for you.

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-LRB-...) transhumanism suffers from a Nietzschean utopianism that lacks common sense, because it ignores the ways in which the technologies for altering human traits are limited in both their technical means and their moral ends.

Adds Visscher: «This is entirely in line with theory and previous inference from SNP [variant] data, yet for some reason many researchers in human genetics and epidemiology continue to believe that there is a lot of non-additive genetic variation for common diseases and quantitative traits.»

Published September 15 in Genome Biology, the study relied on new software for researchers that identifies connections between seemingly unrelated human diseases and traits through the tiny, risk - conferring genetic variations they have in common.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

In a series of publications today in the British scientific journal Nature, international teams of researchers published a nearly complete sequence of the genetic instructions of «Black 6,» the most common breed of laboratory mouse, and matched its traits with the recently decoded human genome.

Anchoring or focalism is a term used in psychology to describe the common human tendency to rely too heavily, or «anchor,» on one trait or piece of information when making decisions.

Our first striking observation was that over one half of measured genes are affected by common genetic variation in human populations — called expression quantitative trait loci or eQTLs.

Franco captures that while Wiseau's mouth, which perpetually feels like it's full of peanut butter and / or cotton - mouth - inducing pills may be joylessly droning, «Ha ha ha», the eyes betray that he has no idea what he's supposed to find amusing, but apparently «laughing» is a common trait of these «humans» so as long as he's at least attempting to pass among their ranks, he might as well give it a shot.

The common trait of these systems is that their aims are pure but that they are run by human beings, who are far from pure.

Modern neurotheology uses brain mapping techniques to investigate the premise that humans have a common trait, possibly located in the brain, that is definable as spiritual or religious experience.

All of these eight shared one trait in common; the humans had more information than the quant models.

To western humans, this seems bizarre, but lactose intolerance is actually a far more common trait in adult mammals than the ability to digest lactose.

Pets often share traits in common with their humans like a love of popcorn or an achy hip.

The potters were extremely poor often with large families and it is believed these early breeders killed every dog that showed aggression to humans especially children this completely eradicated human aggressive traits within the breed, so much so it was a common site to see a badly injured fighting dog returning home in prams alongside newborn babies.

If you combine two humans then only their common traits will carry over to the creation, but if you throw an alien into the mix then that aliens abilities will also carry over, granting your new creation such awesome things as laser eyes or being able to explode violently.

Despite the different approaches to list - making found in Harvest, Neuenschwander reveals common actions and traits that make us human, in particular, the need to record and make lists in order to remember.

It is a common trait of human beings to feel «disappointed» and or annoyed at changes, and the extra work it generates.