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«At General Motors, we value and respect individual differences,» SVP of global human resources John Quattrone told employees.

«These maps show us a stark difference — and complementarity — in the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others,» said Verma.

«With this acquisition, Nokia is strengthening its position in the Internet of Things in a way that leverages the power of our trusted brand, fits with our company purpose of expanding the human possibilities of the connected world, and puts us at the heart of a very large addressable market where we can make a meaningful difference in peoples» lives.»

However, The difference between myself and those who profess to be God's chosen is that I don't delude myself with the anthropocentric nonsense that humans are masters of all other creatures on this planet (as well as all creation), we are merely and momentarily at the top of the food chain.

Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees differences between chimpanzees and humans.

Perhaps the major difference between Wood and the other proposals we have examined (except for the Mud Flower Collective's proposal) is located here, at the point of explicitly or implicitly assumed anthropology or view of what a human being is.

But let us conclude this discussion with a further look at the difference the Christian understanding of man makes in our human, social situation.

But these differences do not warrant viewing everything that is not human as mere things at the disposal of human beings.

But for me the greatest difference between Thomas Aquinas» Cosmological Argument and any and all arguments from design comes from what all the advocates of design admit: that the candidate for the Intelligent Designer could be, at least theoretically, just about any supra «human intelligent manipulator of complex artifacts, from outer «space aliens to Al Gore's Mama Gaia.

The crucial difference between two ways of looking at human problems is the difference between trying to manage history according to plan, and a responsible planning within a history which is more successfully dealt with when we recognize the unmanageable factors within it.

«When I lie on my back and look up at the Milky Way on a clear night and see the vast distances of space and reflect that these are also vast differences of time as well, when I look at the Grand Canyon and see the strata going down, down, down, through periods of time which the human mind can't comprehend....

Human psychology differs greatly, to be sure, not only because we have much less access to the psyches of other animals, but also because their mentality is so much less developed, so that they — at least most of them — seem incapable of entertaining norms as such, The difference is, nevertheless, one of degree, not of kind.

It has at the same time scanned the earth, making note of human differences.

I see no reason to insist upon this absolute difference, and could even suggest that at the highest levels of their intellectual functioning human occasions may be able to conceive possibilities directly.

This means, among other things, that even the difference between human creatures such as ourselves and other creatures not similarly capable of self - understanding and moral action is at most a relative, not an absolute, difference.

With quiet resolve, with love even for those they oppose and concern for the human values at stake, such a group can make the difference between a community in which the church is merely a cultural parenthesis and one in which it is a factor to be reckoned with.

At the human level the degree of conceptual autonomy is such that it seems to be a difference in kind.

«When I lie on my back and look up at the Milky Way on a clear night and see the vast distances of space and reflect that these are also vast differences of time as well, when I look at the Grand Canyon and see the strata going down, down, down, through periods of time which the human mind can't comprehend... it's a feeling of sort of an abstract gratitude that I am alive to appreciate these wonders, when I look down a microscope it's the same feeling, I am grateful to be alive to appreciate these wonders.»

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

Often the idea of God as the Absolute leaves one mystified as to how human acts can make any difference to God at all or as to what divine love can be.

Using studies of twins who had been separated at birth, yet displayed remarkably similar characteristics of personality despite differences in environment, Harris demonstrated the importance of genetic predisposition as a factor in human development.

It's human to have feelings of aggression and even anger, but the difference between you and your toddler is that you've learned to pull your punches — at least most of the time.

At 3 months, there were no differences in breastfeeding rates between the 2 groups; 85.8 % of infants in the offer - pacifier group were exclusively breastfeeding compared with 86.2 % in the not - offered group.282 The AAP policy statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk includes a recommendation that pacifiers can be used during breastfeeding, but implementation should be delayed until breastfeeding is well established.283

Proposals by the British government at today's conference on the European court of human rights in Brighton will make a «big difference» in improving how the court operates, Ken Clarke has said.

There has in fact been a persistent puzzle among economists, especially the variety that believe that all human behavior is rational, concerning why it is that people vote in such large numbers when their vote almost never make a difference, not only at the Presidential level, but even at the level of local elections.

At the same time, however, jurisdictions voting to raise their wages should be required to make up the wage difference for nonprofit human services providers.

I suspected if we could comprehensively measure all Olympians in finals, we would see significant differences [when compared to non-Olympians], but we would not see them having freakish things like 200 percent more lung capacity, or muscles that can contract at twice the [maximum] force of a normal human muscle.

These time differences are imperceptible at human speeds, but they have been verified in experiments involving the International Space Station as well as extra-fast airplanes.

Carol Ward at the University of Missouri in Columbia points out that there are too many differences between chimps and early hominins to draw firm conclusions about early human behaviour from chimp studies.

Morton's aim in measuring skulls from a diverse range of human groups was not to get at intelligence differences, as is sometimes claimed.

But pretty soon he is detailing its failings: we are overconfident in our mind - reading abilities; we use our own mind as a template for others, yet confabulate wildly to make sense of ourselves; by stereotyping people we overemphasise differences; we are woefully poor at reading body language; and we constantly misapply our mind - reading talents, dehumanising others while imbuing inanimate objects with human traits.

Yeah, what's actually sort of gratifying when you look at some of the differences that seemed to be showing up is that that a lot of these most significant tiny differences in the genomes between the humans and the chimps aren't exactly where you would think they would be in terms of their effects.

While Aβ is made in all human brains as they age, differences in the rate at which it is produced and eliminated from the brain and in how it affects neurons, means that not everyone develops dementia.

«Understanding how gene editing works in human embryos will require research in human embryos,» because mouse embryos, for example, have species - specific developmental differences, notes Dana Carroll, a biochemistry professor at the University of Utah who researches CRISPR.

The human species is essentially homogeneous from a genetic perspective, however, the various groups have some subtle but significant differences at statistical and scientific level that have developed over time due to the effect of geographical, demographic and cultural factors» says Valentina Coia.

DNA that doesn't produce proteins may be especially important for creating differences between humans and other primates, biochemist Paulina Carmona - Mora reported October 18 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

A few researchers like Bernstein believe these differences are so significant we should not be talking about dominance in humans at all.

At six months old infants can recognize faces of different monkeys, as well as those of different humans, and recognize phonetic differences in foreign languages.

«Humans vary in their DNA sequences, and what is taken as the «normal» DNA sequence for reference can not account for all these differences,» says Stuart Orkin, MD, of Dana - Farber Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and co-corresponding author on the study with Matthew Canver, an MD - PhD student at Harvard Medical School.

«Recent theories have suggested that humans» fluency in relational learning — our ability to make comparisons between objects, events or ideas — may be the key difference in mental ability between us and other animals,» said Dedre Gentner, professor of psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and a senior author of the study.

In the human study, the differences in weight were small, and there was no correlation between antibiotic use in the first 6 months and weight at 7 years, the last time information was collected on the children.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

Comparing humans and other primates, they saw little difference in basal metabolic rate, which reflects the total calories used by our organs while we are at rest.

«We found that a comprehensive exercise and diet program in a group setting can make a difference for prostate cancer patients, and the difference was greater than I expected in a short period of time,» said lead author Brian Focht, a professor of human sciences at Ohio State.

Given the outward differences, it seems reasonable to expect to find fundamental differences in the portions of the genome that determine chimp and human brains — reasonable, at least, to a brainocentric neurobiologist like me.

My naïve plan to make a difference by treating one animal at a time evaporated when I saw first - hand the enormity of the problems of human poverty, habitat loss, and politics versus science.

They also report interesting differences: for example, lizard sleep rhythm is extremely regular and fast: the lizard's sleep cycle is about 80 seconds long at 27oC, vs. 30 minutes in cat or 60 - 90 minutes in humans.

«Before this study, nobody in Canada had looked at actual differences in dietary intake patterns between school hours and non-school hours,» said lead author Claire Tugault - Lafleur, a PhD candidate in UBC's human nutrition program.

Newcomb and her colleagues looked at human and mouse cells to further study the trend in gender differences that they had observed.

Professor Krasimira Tsaneva - Atanasova, who specialises in Mathematics in Healthcare at the University of Exeter said: «Although human movement has been well studied, what is far less well understood is the differences each of us displays when we move — whether it is faster, or lighter, or smoother for example.