Sentences with phrase «distinct human features»

Among the genetic changes that have happened over the course of human evolution, only a few might be responsible for the rise of distinct human features.

Not exact matches

The absence of strict determinism that recent physics has discovered at the most basic levels of matter, the chance mutations that biology finds at the level of life's evolution, and the freedom that comes forth with human existence — all of these are the expected features of any world we might claim to be distinct from the being of its creator.

If these selves are not partially capable of self - determination and thus partly free to wish, choose, and act in independence of the rest of the universe, then they are not distinct selves at all but are indistinguishable from a cosmic causal system.35 Similarly, as explained above, Hartshorne holds that love in the form of sympathy, either immediate or mediate, is a fundamental feature of the human condition and of the total cosmos.

If chronic fatigue syndrome has a signal — a distinct biological or psychological feature — Buchwald and Goldberg hope that the co-twin experiments will detect the signal amid the noise of human variation.

The highly anticipated debut feature from acclaimed author Charlie McDowell, THE ONE I LOVE is an original tale that continues to showcase McDowell's keen observations of human relationships with a distinct and comedic voice.

Kagan began his talk by noting that of the four or five distinguishing features of humans, as distinct from apes, «the fifth — a sense of right and wrong, a conception of self as virtuous and nonvirtuous,» is not only the most important, but also, «probably the most adaptive [and indeed] the competing motive for evolutionary fitness.»

The exhibition highlights work that seeks to capture the distinct, unusual, symbolic, and expressive features of the human face — work that is made in an imaginative and compelling way.