Sentences with phrase «developed human traits»

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In the 1980s, two teams of psychologists developed a model that sought to assess human beings based on five personality traits, known as the «Big Five.»

That's a natural trait of humans, developed by evolution.

They tend, unfortunately, to mirror less admirable human traits, developing and protecting self - interest and even ambition.

In all cases of domestication, the cultivated forms tend to develop fruits larger than the wild varieties; botanists are not certain whether this trait is the result of better cultural techniques or the natural tendency for humans to pick the largest fruits, which contain next years» seed.

House mice living near humans developed white fur patches, a trait associated with domesticated animals.

Bipedalism, one of the basic markers of humans, apparently developed long before other traits, such as stone - tool making.

His research interests include the molecular underpinnings of cervical cancer (including developing genetic screens), the identification of the genetic determinants of quantitative traits in humans, and the application of massively parallel sequencing technology for understanding the genetics of complex disease.

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

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.

Details of an organism's embryonic development often reveal traits carried by its evolutionary ancestors; consider, for instance, how human embryos initially develop gill - like slits and a tail.

The trait most likely developed 4800 to 6600 years ago from an earlier variant differing at just two base pairs that these groups got from intermixing with tribes migrating from the Asian Steppes, the team reported here last week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

During this BSA Lecture, Kevin Esvelt of Massachusetts Institute of Technology discusses his lab's work with communities on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard to prevent tick - borne human illness by developing hereditary traits in mice that could immunize them, removing a vital link in the spread of Lyme disease.

According to Andreassen, the study's senior author, some think of schizophrenia as a «side effect» arising from advantageous variants in genes that are related to the development of human traits, such as cognitive and language skills, that may have increased risks for developing psychoses.

The film tracks his progress as he works on his technique and learns to be a true performer, but the truly special moments involve Chris confessing his distaste for human contact, a troubling trait that may have developed as a result of his tragic relationship with his cold, unsupportive parents.

Noticing that his mother has passed the effects of the drug genetically to young Caesar, Will is shocked to see just how extensive the side effects are, resulting in Caesar developing a mind far beyond any ape, as well as typically human traits such as empathy and compassion, leading to a bond between the chimp and Will's Alzheimer's - afflicted father Charles (John Lithgow).

Humans developed dog breeds to exhibit different personal and physical traits.

Dog breeds are dogs that have relatively uniform physical characteristics developed under controlled conditions by humans, with breeding animals selected for phenotypic traits such as size, coat color, structure, and behavior.

Unlike humans, domestic dog breeds have been developed via heavy positive selection for specific traits.

Furthermore, if the genetic traits responsible for this disease in dogs are shared with human patients, precision medicine can be used to help develop targeted therapies to treat this life - threatening disease.

While assigning a preconceived list of habits, personality traits, and behaviors to a group of beings might be a distinctly human tendency, we are guilty of developing stereotypes against more than just one another.

That variety in behavior is mostly man - made: Dog breeding practices developed to highlight certain behaviors or traits that humans found useful.

But we've developed these capacities far faster than we've figured out how to respond to them — both in filtering information that, while scary or sexy, distracts from more meaningful, but subtle, trends, and developing the discipline to recognize human traits that cause us to ignore important, but less flamboyant, clues pointing to a promising path of least regret.

If you're just entering the field of Human Resources or are looking to advance your career as an HR manager, then you should know which traits to develop in order to accomplish your career goals.

Recent topics of interest in positive psychology have been investigating how to help adolescents develop positive personality traits related to school, social life, family, and general development, as well as ways for training educators on how to cultivate optimal development and teach adaptive aspects of human nature.

The traits — desires — intentions — behaviours framework is comparable with the theory of planned behaviour, but traits — desires — intentions — behaviours was developed specifically to address human fertility.