Not exact matches
By discovering
more about their
survival tricks, the researchers hope to learn
more ways to protect
human cells from damage.
If 50,000 years ago the
human race was motivated by simple
survival, the emergence of
more complex societies have bred a drive within
human beings to, broadly speaking, seek reward and avoid punishment.
As
humans, we're wired in a way that avoiding pain is much
more important to our
survival than gaining pleasure is (most of the time, anyways!).
Let's just admit we don't know the true origin of any «creator» and understand that morals, ethics and our
human nature come from a deeper nature than we probably understand, but
more likely from a desire to continue the
human race,
survival.
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.
Unfortunately, the very development of
human compassion which serves to mark the Europeans as
more civilized also works against the principle of
survival of the fittest.
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.
It could not then easily be foreseen that within two short decades
human progress, in fact our very physical health or
survival, would seem to depend
more than ever on a return to laws set by the ever - living God.
«In his preoccupation with the analysis of the capitalist system, he (Marx) failed to do justice to the sphere of the personal and the subjective, the sphere where the
human drama of hope and despair, love and hate, death and
survival is enacted... Had Marx paid sufficient attention to these existential problems, he might have been led to a
more critical assessment of his atheist stance.»
The ethical principles which hitherto we have regarded as an appendage, superimposed
more or less by our own free will upon the laws of biology, are now showing themselves — not metaphorically but literally — to be a condition of
survival for the
human race.
After the necessities for
survival are met, healthy relationships contribute much
more to
human happiness than does the increase of consumption of goods and services.
Yet some either deny a concept of God based on a
human like diety... without logically understanding it has to be something
more than that... or worse only see a chaotic uncaring universe..., without understanding the complexity of the infinite miracles, defined by science alone, not to mention the influence of noy yet known to science, occurences... that have occurred for billions of years to end up in their creation and also supporting their every day
survival.
In my
human limitations, I believe and have read from others that those hateful parts were meant
more for defensive
survival.
Even
more fundamental is the
survival of
human community.
We are aware, much
more deeply now that never before, that for the
survival of our Mother earth mercilessly plundered by us
human beings, for the peace of the world torn with division and bigotry, for love and justice to prevail in
human community, and for worship of God to bring shalom to ourselves and to the community around us, we must learn to be repentant, each one of us acknowledging we have fallen short of God's glory, But repentance alone is not enough.
I find it far
more convincing than attempts to pin
survival value on every single
human characteristic.
In contrast the mammals pictured all gestate to a point where their offspring are far less vulnerable and far
more capable of
survival... roughly akin to circa 9 - 18 mths of
human infant development (which, even then, is a wide range itself).
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 culture is about
survival of the friendliest, says anthropologist John Edward Terrell — and Westerners could learn from
more traditional societies
Early
humans hunted with throwing spears in sub-Saharan Africa for
more than 500,000 years — leading their increasingly watchful prey to develop better flight or fight
survival strategies, Coss said.
This
more positive and social response could help explain the
human connection that happens during times of crises, a connection that may be responsible, at least in part, for our collective
survival as a species.
These pioneers sometimes had to abandon science to focus on
survival, but at a time when
humans couldn't get
more than a few feet off the ground, the data they obtained accurately reckoned the distance to the sun at 93 million miles.
«We now know much
more about metabolic reprogramming of cancerous tissues in
human patients, particularly that the activation of pyruvate carboxylase is important to lung cancer cell growth and
survival,» said Fan, UK professor of toxicology and faculty member of the Markey Cancer Center and CESB at the University of Kentucky.
Now, a study of
more than 100 dog burials in prehistoric Japan claims to provide the strongest evidence yet that early dogs did indeed help people hunt — and may have been critical to
human survival in some parts of the world.
As social ties became
more important to
survival, Wrangham thinks,
human ancestors may have inflicted the same kind of capital punishment, weeding out males who acted with intense and confrontational aggression.
One explanation for the similarities between dogs and
humans is that the two species may have evolved under similar pressures that favored «
survival of the friendliest,» with benefits and rewards for
more cooperative social behavior.
For example, while Joy focuses on direct threats to
human survival (such as bioterrorism), Kass, who is chairman of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, is
more concerned about subtle ways in which our quest for technological mastery could undermine the foundations of
human dignity.
At one point, he explained that so many
more babies survive childbirth now that natural selection, as proposed by Charles Darwin, can not act on
humans to favor infants with traits that are beneficial today or to weed out those with adaptations that impair
survival.
«It's been proposed that Neanderthals depended on visual - spatial abilities and toolmaking, for
survival,
more so than on the social affiliation and group activities that typify the success of modern
humans — and that Neanderthal brains evolved to preferentially support these visuospatial functions,» Berman explained.
«Even in the least complex
human societies, the scale of collective action is greater and presumably
more critical for
survival and reproduction than in most other mammalian societies,» Smith said.
But in stressful times, during which
human survival is less guaranteed, men would be
more willing to risk a physically dissimilar partner in order to father as many children as possible.
Entomologist Bart Knols of Wageningen University in the Netherlands cautions that cage conditions are very different from those of the field, where many other factors influence an insect's
survival; what's
more, the results may not hold up in
human malaria, he says.
The
human genome contains around 20,000 genes, by refining CRISPR - Cas9 technology and using it to screen the leukemia genome the team uncovered a catalogue of approximately 500 genes that are essential for cancer cell
survival, including
more than 200 genes for which drugs could be designed.
«Our results show that, in an era in which high - resolution molecular typing for class I and class II HLA [
human leukocyte antigen] loci has significantly improved the clinical outcome of unrelated donor HSCT by decreasing the risk of immunological complications, lowering the ATLG dose to 15 mg / kg did not affect the time to engraftment and,
more importantly, the incidence of acute or chronic GVHD [graft - vs - host disease], and was associated with an improved probability of event - free
survival, mainly due to a reduced risk of nonrelapse mortality,» wrote Franco Locatelli, MD, of the department of oncoematologia pediatrica, IRCCS Ospedale «Bambino Gesù» in Rome, and colleagues.
Neandertals:
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This instinct is key to
human survival: No one food contains all the nutrients we need, so we're driven to eat a wide variety (even fish are influenced by variety and eat
more if they have
more choices).
They estimated that the microbiome provides
more genes that contribute to
human survival than the
human genome itself provides (8 million vs. 22,000).
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It is clear from such oral tradition, as well as by
more concrete anthropological evidence, that emus have long been a fundamental part of
survival throughout the 40,000 years of
human history in the region.
More ominously, the scientists warn that, «If we do nothing, endocrine disruptors may not only impact on
human health but all the ecosystems including those on which we depend — if we compromise soil productivity and sustainability of our agricultural systems or cause imbalance in marine and freshwater ecosystems through damage to populations of top predators, ultimately, we threaten our own
survival.»
Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for
survival against alien predators
more lethal than any
human he's encountered.
The way the story evolves, as Calvin changes shape and finds ever
more creative ways to destroy the
humans, is a masterclass in narrative escalation, and the way celebration and the noble pursuit of discovery quickly turns to revulsion and
survival is really well handled.
Featuring a new story, two online multiplayer modes (2 - player co-op campaign and a 4 - player «TV show» themed Pay - Per - View event that pits
humans against zombies), thousands of on - screen zombies and
more, Dead Rising 2 takes zombie
survival horror to a whole new level.
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.
A female
survival advantage in
humans is well - documented; women are 4 times
more likely than men to live to 100.
A new five - year canine cancer research project, led by Dr. Liz Pluhar, may improve
survival rates in dogs and give researchers
more insight into glioblastoma to apply to
human trials.
Cats have a sense of smell much
more sensitive than
humans and their DNA is telling them all the time to be clean, very clean, it's a mechanism of
survival.
Conservation populations of primates, important in species
survival plans, have altered microbiomes that are
more human - like and may impact their health, suggests a recently published study funded by Morris Animal Foundation.
Survival for 1 yr after heart attack was found to be
more likely among people with companion dogs, along the lines of
human social support.
Does the ability to communicate with
humans provide a clear
survival advantage so that good communicators / manipulators survive longer and produce
more offspring than poor communicators?