Sentences with phrase «human species as»

In short, the biggest inhibitor to effective action in the face of the current convergence of crises is a fundamental lack of collective intelligence on the part of the human species as a whole.

This is the proposed epoch of Earth history that, proponents say, has begun with the rise of the human species as a globally potent biogeophysical force, capable of leaving a durable imprint in the geological record.

By utilizing cross-cultural anthropological data as a method of comparison, the following curriculum critically analyzes western habits and customs with respect to the conception, gestation, birth, and parenting of children — and the impact this is having on individuals, families, society, and the human species as a whole.

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

Being gay is as natural within the human species as it is with many other species.

We could spend all our time this morning describing the more serious ills that beset the human species as it is intricately involved in the biosphere.

Not exact matches

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

She says animals are following similar health patterns as humans, like how around one out of eight females of either species gets breast cancer.

What it does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.

Musk's long - term vision is to terraform Mars — reengineer our neighboring planet as «a nice place to be» — and allow humans to become a multi-planetary species.

«Musk's long - term vision is to terraform Mars — reengineer our neighboring planet as «a nice place to be» — and allow humans to become a multiplanetary species.

Think about the implications for the human race, if technology is destined to be the essence of who we are as a species, if it's developed largely under the leadership and guidance of a single gender.»

Brain - chemistry studies show that, as a species, humans need to be pushed out of their comfort zones in order to grow.

In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people on the planet as part of his vision of making humans into a «multiplanetary species.»

For generativists, it is extremely unlikely that an alien species would happen to have the same parameters as human beings.

Some argue that even the most advanced human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object.

Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

If a calamity, self - made or otherwise, destroyed life on Earth, as long as a human colony was established elsewhere, the species could endure.

As Musk likely sees it, this is just another setback on the road to turning humans into an interplanetary species.

@Chuckles I was not being hostile, but am just trying to point out that you are basically willing to conflate any similar cognitive errors such as we have as humans as being significant in any way in religious terms, should it happen that we encounter some alien species that also has idiots who think imaginary stuff is real.

My point was that they may not be denied those rights even if, in some respects, they may not seem as developed as some of the higher animals, because rights belong to the whole human species, and thus to all its members.

We may not survive the last as a human species.

@Chuckles There are bound to be many semi-intelligent species of life in the universe similar to us in that their organic brains are also subject to a host of perceptual biases left over from previous steps in their evolutionary progression to that state, just like we have as humans.

Yet by that same token, when we regard the smallest humans as inferior to other animals, we are being «species - ist» in reverse.

Obviously, the human species is not evolving as we still have «cave man» reactions.

If, to the contrary, the difference between humans and some sub-humans were slight (if, for instance, humans were only slightly superior to nonhuman primates, so that human existence were a species belonging to what we now call the nonhuman animal world), it would not be clear that the appearance of humans represents the maximal importance of subhuman existence as such.

But presuming — as I do — the validity of the concept of geologic time, I note that the designation «Anthropocene» unavoidably suggests an exceptional quality to the species homo sapiens, if only in terms of our collective human powers.

It will always boggle my mind how people somehow think the advancement of the human species or even the universe is the same as morality.

Yes, I'm talking about macro evolution, as in one day monkey years down the road... we have a human... There is adaptation for sure but then there is a big drop off from that and new species evolving from single cells...

About 10 % of the human population — and about the same percent of numerous other species, as well — are naturally attracted to those of their same gender.

For a Whiteheadian it is more natural and correct to speak of the relation as between human beings and «other» animals; for humanity is one species of animals.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

By locating the discussion of evil in the context of the entire cosmic complex, one may overlook the particular powerful role that human beings increasingly play in bringing evil to their own species and to other species as well.

Certain behaviours are universally detrimental to a species survival and as such should, at some level, be biologically «programmed» in to humans, and reflected in our socio - norms.

If science able to offer any truths that would help humans solve the kinds of real psychological, social, political problems that they constantly face, then I'm sure that as a species we would be rational enough to use those truths.

For we humans are all genetically linked; we share nearly all of the DNA formula peculiar to our species, and we are already bonded as blood brothers and sisters.

The moral philosophy of Western Civilization perceives intrinsic human equality as an objective truth under which our moral status need not be earned by possessing favored characteristics; it comes with the package of species membership.

We are accustomed to regard a man as an individual of the species «man,» a being endowed with definite capacities, the development of which brings the human ideal in him to realization — of course with variations in each individual.

The science (human population genetics) is clear that our species arose as a population, and that is what I have focused on (since that is my area of expertise).

This view accepts that humans share ancestry with all other forms of life, and that our species arose as a population, not through a single primal pair.

We treat racism as though it is the contained characteristic of a specific species of human beings known as racists, that lived in a prior era of American history, but have now nearly become extinct.

Now it is entirely possible, as I have said earlier, that the appearance of the human species with its peculiar form of consciousness is by no means the end of evolution.

Humans are indeed unique — as is every other species on this planet.

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.

An individual, a person, may be moral, but the humans as a species are selfish and greedy.

Think about it: The earth, at 25,000 miles «round the equator, is just barely big enough to contain all life... and perhaps... It IS N'T big enough to contain the (self - over-populated) species «H.Sapiens.Sapient», («Human - Kind»)... also known as «H.Sapiens.Egotisticae», (aka, «Egotistical Man»)!!

Thus, in spite of the centrality Western culture gives to «being intimate,» the Wynnes view intimacy as a supplementary, not an essential, process «for strengthening the bonding that has been crucial for the survival of the human species throughout the ages.»

We will learn more, as we continue to observe other species across multiple human generations.

Such a species might find human notions about protecting weak members of the community just as gut - level repugnant as we find the notion of murdering them.

Further, the Marxist understanding of human nature views social history as the process of the human species» selfcreation.