Sentences with phrase «complex human societies»

Climate change is one of many factors impacting the Earth's complex human societies and natural ecosystems.

In particular, the PB framework is based on the fact — and I emphasise the word «fact» — that the relatively stable Holocene state of the Earth System (the past approximately 11,700 years) is the only state of the System that has allowed the development of agriculture, urban settlements and complex human societies.

«Even in the least complex human societies, the scale of collective action is greater and presumably more critical for survival and reproduction than in most other mammalian societies,» Smith said.

As late as the 1970s, anthropologists described rainforests as a «counterfeit paradise,» arguing that their soil lacked the nutrients to sustain agriculture or complex human societies.

HOW did complex human society develop?

Mostly, training pet dogs is teaching them to it into this complex human society of which a lot of dog's breeding and natural behavioural tendencies hasn't prepared them very well for anyway.

What is more, past global warming has included both minor and mass extinction events (e.g. PETM, Permian - Triassic extinction) so even if current warming is in line with what's repeatedly been experienced in the past, it doesn't follow that either the process of warming or the end result are desireable from the perspective of maintaining an advanced, affluent, complex human society based on creating reliable surpluses of food for 7.5 + billion people.

Use the knowledge of what really happens in a complex human society to avoid that mistake and design better programs that actually work in the future (what really happens with increased GHGs in a complex Climate Earth).

Not exact matches

This skill «enables the complex social relationships that characterize human societies,» the authors write.

If 50,000 years ago the human race was motivated by simple survival, the emergence of more complex societies have bred a drive within human beings to, broadly speaking, seek reward and avoid punishment.

Rather, society is a never - ending work - in - progress constructed through the ongoing strivings of living and breathing human beings whose motives are psychologically complex and culturally specific.

A human person is an example of such a personal order, and one could extend this image to include larger and more complex corpuscular societies, such as ethnic groups, geographical communities, or subcultures.

If the human quest is reduced to electrons dancing along wires and computational patterns crossing a population of neurons, does such a «story» justify even caring whether our society attains the success of a complex adaptive system?

These, he discovered, could also provide a framework for understanding complex processes in any domain of experience, including human societies.

In contrast to suburbia, the traditional city is a complex institution designed to address and transform the unpleasant aspects of human life by means of community, culture and civil society.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

Yet, both became the making of changes in the institutional structure was not his chief concern and because his human vista was limited by the conditions of a simple peasant society east of the Mediterranean in the first century A.D., he obviously could not foresee or make pronouncements upon the vast complex of particular problems that confront Christians in today's world.

If any one of the above scenarios comes to pass, even partially, the delicate and complex set of human relationships that constitute a healthy human society will be disturbed.

However, if he remains true to his Divine Will as reflected in the Law, it will not be sufficient for him to raise up religious truth in a sporadic fashion without any line of direction or fulfilment: «if God is the Environer of the soul of man, then from the very beginning of man there must be, within his personality and within the complex of human society a God - evoked and God directed line of spiritual truth, and good, and spiritual authority».

Lumen gentium teaches that «Christ... has founded... his Holy Church»; «has made her visible framework... the dispenser of grace and truth»; «she is a society equipped with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual fellowship»; «we must not think of the Church as two substances, but a single, complex reality, the compound of a human and a divine element» (n. 8).

In moving from this well - ordered but repressive society to forms of social life which enable these dimensions of the human spirit to emerge in more concrete relationships, we must be prepared to live within conditions which are more complex, confused, and unsettling.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

A rock, for example, is an inorganic structured society, while a human being is an organic complex structured society that includes a regnant personal society.

Naturally, he does not object to the use of such terminology as «body» and «soul,» provided it is remembered that the human body is essentially a vastly complex society of actual occasions and the human soul is the unifying, purposive agency of the body.

Instead of disintegrating the human person into a swarm of entities that are then reunited into the — dubious — unity of a bare «society,» the simpler and more realistic solution ought to lie in conceiving the person, steadfastly and from the beginning, as one entity, even though a complex one, as befits Whitehead's starting point.

With the evolutionary emergence of complex, ordered societies of occasions serving the rich and imaginative experience of strands of «presiding occasions» which exhibit «personal order «4 and perhaps consciousness — that is, animals and human beings, with their quicksilver brains and supple bodies — opportunities expand exponentially and the risks of freedom expand correlatively.

As God is the Environer of the soul of man, then from the beginning of man there must be, within his personality and within the complex of human society, a God - evoked and God - directed line of spiritual truth, goodness and spiritual authority, with the fullness of development within it.

Nor is it an ideology, but rather the accurate formulation of the results of a careful reflection on the complex realities of human existence, in society and in the international order, in the light of faith and of the Church's tradition.

But there are also complex, persistent forces in human beings and in society which resist growth.

The human body is intricately complex, and therefore we find in it specialized forms of order such as societies and structured societies.

It was acknowledged that human society in general had tended over time to become more complex, but the rigid model of mega-stage advancement soon became obsolete.

The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

The organismic view of society on the part of process thought has much in common with systems theory, which holds that human societies are systems, at times sub-systems intertwined in complex ways and parts of a larger system.

It is a rule that lies at the core of studying animal and plant behavior, and human society should be looked at no differently, as even technologically complex societies are still governed by EROI.

«Human societies are hugely complex, and factors such as culture and access to healthcare make it hard to study the impact of a single factor like social relationships on survival.»

In the complex societies of the early 21st century, this means that as humans go about...

Humans live in complex societies in which people specialise in different jobs.

That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that human activities can disrupt the social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.

Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment of a complex subject that does not take proper account of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced human society as well.

«We have seen how cities and states can overcome complex challenges by taking an approach that considers a broad range of sustainability principles covering human rights, labour standards, environment and anti-corruption, and then working with business and civil society to find lasting solutions.»

«It is important to note that depression is a very complex disease and also defined in the context of modern human societies, so we certainly can't say that our ancestors or Neanderthals were depressed in the modern sense.

The study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, analyzed the vocal sequences of seven different species of birds and mammals and found that the vocal sequences produced by the animals appear to be generated by complex statistical processes, more akin to human language.

Distinguished guest speaker, Dr. Aravinda Chakravarti, Director of the Center for Complex Genomics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the current President of the American Society of Human Genetics reiterated the importance of genetics in the future of healthcare.

Yet exactly how human societies evolve from small groups to the huge, anonymous complex societies of today has long remained a mystery.

The story is deceptively complex, not only dealing with how humans would survive in this wasteland, but how individuals and groups would rise above the barest of existence to create a new society.

While this is the true essence of «education» often emphasized by educationists, in the present dominance of neo liberal model of development there is a growing realization at all levels that the existing models have failed and that there is a total dearth of relevance between the human being and the complex contemporary society.

Thus, we need to formulate and organize knowledge through a complex, creative, transversal, polysemous, transcultural and transpolitical epistemology that promotes respect for human rights as an articulator metapoint of view of the human effort to become aware of the ethic sustainability of the world - society.

The fragility of human relations and the complex emotions of those who are marginalized in modern societies are both featured in films shown at the Sharjah International Children's Film Festival.

As I see it, human beings and citizens in complex, modern democratic societies regularly confront situations in which traditional morality provides little if any guidance.

Hosted by the Data & Society Research Institute, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the conference explored emerging civil rights issue connected to the rise in big data and complex algorithms used in our everyday lives.