Sentences with phrase «human life span as»

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The changes are extremely gradual, they can not be observed over the short time span of human civilization so far, and the term «species» is a man - made concept to make categorization of life forms convenient... it is not an immutable feature of the natural world as you seem to think it is.

Indeed, I am inclined to think that Daniels» proposal would be safe only in a society that thought of human life not simply in terms of a normal life span but also as directed toward God.

Instead, the rationale appears to be that an extended life span would simply satisfy many private desires: first, hardly anyone wants to die; second, as a basic human good, life is worth extending indefinitely; and, third, it would be remiss of science not to respond to that ancient expression of human hope and desire.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy caLife, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife for a worthy cause.

First of all, that human life in our span of years and so far as man's history is concerned is, like the created world itself, derivative from a realm of heavenly existence which abides eternal over against the transient, mortal, and uncertain span of our years.

Human females can live a normal life span with the disease, as can female mice — the latter species also frequently becomes obese.

Metchnikoff blamed indigenous bacteria for senility, atherosclerosis, and an altogether shortened life span — going even so far as to predict the day when surgeons would routinely remove the human colon simply to rid us of the «chronic poisoning» from its abundant flora.

As Huber Warner, associate director of the Biology of Aging Program at the NationalInstitute of Aging, says, «If we knew what regulates life span inturtles, that might be useful in figuring out how humans age and how tointervene.»

After all, as he has pointed out, if human aging were completely preventable, and disease eradicated, the average life span might be about 300 years.

Just as improved diet and medical care have resulted in increased life expectancy in humans, advances in nutrition and veterinary care have increased the life span of pet cats.

It will be one of the hardest forms of damage to repair via rejuvenation biotechnology; the only one that springs to mind as likely being even more difficult is the matter of damaged nuclear pore proteins in long - lived cells, single molecules that might be as old as you are, doing the same job for an entire human life span.

Calorie restriction in humans is associated with weight loss, reduced inflammation and improved markers for cardiovascular and metabolic health in obese -LCB- Formatting Citation -RCB-(9,10) as well as non-obese (11,12) subjects, proposing a novel therapy for increasing life span.

Terence Davies's A Quiet Passion is one such rarity, refusing to over-account for the sensitivities or attention spans of today's audiences in treating Emily Dickinson as a living, breathing human inextricable from her everyday reality.

Simply observing a delay in progress and pointing out that there is a limit to the human life span (it is a matter of ceilings, you know) would blind one to the obvious reforms that the nation could adopt that might improve life expectancy, such as reducing rampant alcoholism, bringing its AIDS epidemic under control, and cleaning up its environmental messes.

As a profession, we agree on the need for a preventive healthcare regimen that enhances the human - animal bond, lengthens the patient's life span and improves each pet's quality of life.

Compare those human life expectancy figures to breeds like Bernese Mountain Dogs and Dogues de Bordeaux, which have an average life expectancy of about 5 to 8 years or other breeds such as Chihuahuas that might enjoy a life span of around 15 to 20 years.

Senior cats suffer many of the same conditions and diseases as older humans, but careful management can vastly improve both their potential life span and their quality of life.

Hospice care, or «pawspice,» the term coined by Alice Villalobos, DVM, former President of the American Association of Human Animal Bond Veterinarians (AAHABV) and founding member of the Veterinary Cancer Society, is supportive assistance in evaluating and managing our pets» quality of life as they near the end of their days, a time period that can span from days to months.

All female mammals get bonus years and all female mammals that loose their ovaries before middle age loose those bonus years including humans who have the same average life span as a man if they receive a full hysterectomy before middle age.

Just as improved diet and medical care have resulted in increased life expectancy in humans, advances in nutrition and veterinary care have increased the life span of pet cats.

Human Development Human development as intended here is the life - span, interdisciplinary study of the individual from conception to death, within familial, social, cultural, and physical contexts.

- Mental Health Diagnosis (3 semester hours)-- Psychodiagnosis and Treatment Strategies, covers types of human distress, as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, including the development of tools for the understanding and critical appraisal of abnormal human behavior across the life - span.