Sentences with phrase «human survival makes»

The interweaving of the scientific quest with the search for moral resources that will help us confront threats to human survival makes this four - hour series more than just a glimpse of cuffing - edge research.

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Science is the only truth, and if we truly care about human survival, Fact not Novels should be what guide our decision making.

In Systems of Survival (reviewed in First Things, December 1993), Jacobs maintains that human beings have basically only two ways of making a living, one concerned with acquiring or protecting territories, and the other with trading or producing for trade.

I agree that human beings are predisposed to spiritual or supernatural beliefs, probably as an evolutionary bi-product, fearing the unknown made for greater survival odds.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

@Civiloutside, Makes all the sense in the world, regarding human tribal survival.

This is the problem, so much discussed today, of the other as other, taken here with great seriousness and made the central challenge to human growth, and indeed to human survival.

Unlike humans, who can and often do set out to make others suffer, animals are primarily concerned to «protect their territory,» as students of their behavior tell us, or to save their young from attack, or to secure necessary supplies of food for their survival.

For our survival and well - being, Wilson says, we need a consensus about our origins, our nature as human beings, our place in the natural world and our purpose, or what it is that makes life worth living.

The togetherness - fusion force, which is deeply rooted in the biological survival needs of human beings, is the cohesive force that makes for the bonding of family systems (and other close relationships).

Nature alone provides ample causes of death, but it's human nature to make and use technology to improve our chances of survival.

It never made sense to me that after thousands and thousands of years of human history and survival that all of a sudden in the last 100 years, childbirth is «too dangerous» and «too painful» to do naturally.

Eating is an essential survival mechanism, it only makes sense that a human child will instinctively begin eating when she is developmentally ready to do so, just as she will begin to sit up, walk, and communicate, all on her own with no specialized instruction or coercion from her parents.

non-specific - like lactoferrin, lysozyme and bifidus factors which either make human milk a poor medium for bacterial survival or make the intestine unsuitable for the growth of pathogenic agents.

Neuroscientific insights point to three key characteristics of human nature: emotionality (we are far more emotional than we think we are, and emotionality play a central role in decision - making), amorality (we are born amoral and our moral compass is developed in the course of our existence), and egoism (we are driven to survival, which is a basic form of egoism, i.e. preservation of the self).

«Human societies are hugely complex, and factors such as culture and access to healthcare make it hard to study the impact of a single factor like social relationships on survival.»

Humans, Sheldrake says, retain only vestiges of morphic - resonance telepathy, possibly because telephones and mass media make the ability less necessary for survival.

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He sees a cautionary tale about the dangers to human survival, and yet the planets he studies have made him unexpectedly bullish on life's cosmic prospects.

The animal behaviors that seem peculiar to us humans actually make a lot of sense for survival.

Recently, his lab used induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — adult cells made to act like embryonic stem cells — made from skin cells of patients carrying apoE4, or other mutations related to Alzheimer's, to study their effects on the development, survival, and degeneration of human neurons.

The research also rebutted the conventional «survival of the fittest» concept, showing there was hardly any reason to believe that Neanderthals were genetically inferior to modern humans and failed to make it.

So many say that carbs are completely unnecessary for human survival but if that is true why does reducing them so far make me feel so terrible?

I disagree with Dr. Greger and the conventional wisdom (the majority of probiotic supplement makers) that it's better to make an effort to increase the survival of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria through the highly acidic human stomach.

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Water isn't just pretty though, it is what we are mostly made of, so the humans who were attuned to shiny things were ensuring their survival by making certain that they sought out their most basic need.

What did make this movie work was the sense of «being there,» of watching these characters go through what they think are grand plans for themselves (Wikus proud of getting promoted; Christopher thinking he's finally going to fix the mothership and escape) only for random chance, selfishness, and the raw immediacy of simple survival kick in and having them struggle from moment to moment against hostile forces (MNU, the human slumlords, there is no difference between those two groups exploiting the aliens).

The end result is not only an extremely well - made survival thriller, but a poignant celebration of the human spirit that deserves to be seen by all.

Vanessa Helsing is the last hope for survival, as she unknowingly awakens to discover she has a unique blood composition that makes her not only immune to vampires, but with the ability to turn a vampire human.

It's a big - screen showcase for the human tenacity for survival, if not of our ability to make evolutionary cinema.

The result is a terrifically human slice of sci - fi, which makes space travel plausible without taking itself too seriously, Damon's jokey turn accompanied by cute touches on the road to survival (the use of a tarpaulin being the cheekiest) and on the soundtrack; I never imagined I'd hear Abba's Waterloo in a space drama.

This year alone, they released six of the most inventive, quality offerings out there: two terrifying survival thrillers, Damien Power's devastating and brilliant Killing Ground and Sam Patton's lesser but still - worthy Desolation; Sean Byrne's masterful tale of artistic obsession and satanic possession The Devil's Candy (all three even harder to endure because the featured families in peril are so human and likable); A Dark Song, an unnerving occult thriller in which a woman hires a medium to help make contact with her dead daughter; and House on Willow Street, which, similar to last year's horror highlight Don't Breathe, sees a house robbery — led by a woman with a mission, played by modern scream - queen Sharni Vinson — go terrible wrong, but this time in a more supernatural way.

The two threats, economic and environmental, tend to produce a real crisis of humanity that makes becomes an imperative the construction around the world of a new society different from the current that act interdependently with common goals and rational in every country and on a global scale without which it may be put into question the survival of humans and life on Earth.

A substance needed by all humans for good health, even survival, would make a good tax generator.

«A hauntingly rich WWII novel about courage, brutality, love, survival — and the essence of what makes us human.»

And that just makes everything far more horrific... Knowing that they were once normal humans living various different kinds of lives (some not so nice), everything about the horror and survival aspect switches gears.

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Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

If your goal is to enable the long - time survival of the human race, and to reduce potentially devastating environmental risks to society (drought, floods, famine, heat waves, sea level rise, etc) then focusing on global warming mitigation would make more sense.

As long as species have zero impact on humans (including the esthetic, one species of moss will do just as any other to make Spitzbergen look pretty for tourists), I couldn't care less about their survival.

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

Without a doubt the human species has made it possible to prolong the survival of life on Earth for more than 100 million years.

This is the case in Cameroon, for example, where Survival International (SI), which campaigns for the rights of Indigenous peoples, has made serious allegations over abuses of the Indigenous Baka people by forest guards employed by the government, but supported by WWF with uniforms, supplies and training, including human rights training.

It appears from paleo - science that there is more to it than that, the clouds that they generate as a control mechanism on the earth's temperature, this is yet another feedback mechanism for survival of all life on the planet and has been working for aeons of time, right back to the earliest life here... the planet was made more hospitable to life by life itself, geo - engineering on grand scale by the tiniest of plants in the sea... which outstrips the cleverest of plans by humans to geo - engineer and more relevantly does no harm to the planet...

He expressed the opinion that it would be «arrogant» for anyone now living to suggest that we should make any effort to maintain the Earth's climate within the range of temperatures that have existed throughout all of recorded human history, while apparently not regarding it as «arrogant» for the humans of the past century up through the present to engage in activities which threaten to radically and abruptly alter the Earth's climate and ecosystems upon which not only human civilization, but the survival of the human species, utterly depend.

survival of humanity as a species (especially the traits that make us distinctly «human»); 2.

And that makes humans responsible for their survival.