Sentences with phrase «human traits such»

Langgård often use nature or animals to represent human traits such as ambition, desire and fear.

Noticing that his mother has passed the effects of the drug genetically to young Caesar, Will is shocked to see just how extensive the side effects are, resulting in Caesar developing a mind far beyond any ape, as well as typically human traits such as empathy and compassion, leading to a bond between the chimp and Will's Alzheimer's - afflicted father Charles (John Lithgow).

Human traits such as the face, voice, and gait are commonly used for biometric - based person recognition.

I do not think of god in those terms though, I apply no human traits such as those.

Not exact matches

That would be fine if women had some innate ability to detect desirable or undesirable traits that might fit into a long term plan for development of the human species, and were uniformly intelligent and responsible enough to adhere to such a plan.

Critics of genetic modification in humans fear such a move would start something of a slippery slope leading to «designer» babies — parents could basically pick eye color, size and maybe even personality traits.

Occasionally, Hartshorne even speaks of a «besouled body,» but by such language he means only the probability of certain modes of action and experience that embody a given personality's characteristic traits.11 Consequently, he suggests that, when a person's body goes into a deep, dreamless sleep, the soul loses its actuality, only to regain it when the person awakens.12 Understandably, therefore, he disregards as inapplicable to his own view Gilbert Ryle's well - known caricature of Cartesian anthropological dualism as «the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine» — especially since Hartshorne denies that the human body is a «machine» in any materialistic, mechanical sense.13

Mathews claimed: «Science discloses a universe of activity characterized by traits so analogous to what we call reason and purpose in human beings, as to be unintelligible unless such qualities are recognized» (CSR 397).

In this regard, we described two types of biologically - based teleologies: (i) an external teleology, where there is a deliberate and conscious setting of goals, those that are generally found among human beings and possibly in higher animals; and (ii) an internal teleology, where there is no self - directed or conscious goal - seeking on the part of living organisms, such as in the natural selection of favorable traits among biologically adaptive species.

Two traits of classical theism were that it either (like Stoicism and Spinozism) clearly and consistently denied human freedom (in the straightforward sense of actions being not wholly determined by their causal conditions) or else ambiguously or contradictorily affirmed and denied causal determinism — truly classically in Aquinas's statement that God strictly causes our actions but in such fashion that we were also free to act otherwise.

During the process of domestication, plants undergo changes in certain traits that make them more amenable to humans and agriculture such as larger seeds, larger fruits, a compact growth habit, and so on.

«Human microbial communities play an important role in digestion and immune health and are believed to collectively endow us with the essential traits we rely on for such functions, according to the research team.

In Damasio's view, these exist beyond the realm of human beings: some non-human species exhibit traits of moral behaviour — such as compassion or shame.

Bipedalism, one of the basic markers of humans, apparently developed long before other traits, such as stone - tool making.

Ostrander says that by identifying other dog genes for body size and for traits such as leg length and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth and its disorders — especially cancer — in humans and their best friends.

For mosquito species, these included general traits like subgenus and geographic distribution as well as traits relevant to the ability of each species to transmit disease, such as proximity to human populations, whether they typically bite humans and how many different viruses they are known to transmit.

If people are born with certain drives, if certain ignoble traits, such as violence and selfishness, are innate, then that might make them unchangeable, and attempts at social reform and human improvement might be proven to be a waste of time.

The willingness to imitate such gestures may be a uniquely human trait, researchers propose.

«While human microbes are natural to humans, enclosed environments over-enriched in human bacteria might facilitate transmission of bacteria or bacterial traits, such as antibiotic resistance, for example MRSA,» said Maria - Gloria Dominquez - Bello, associate professor at New York University School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

The collection of studies in the theme issue provides a rallying point for broader discussions of how human influences shape evolution and how that evolution, in turn, influences species traits, biodiversity, and «ecosystem services» — the benefits that nature provides to humans, such as food, water and clean air.

«We've been trying to track down the genetic and molecular basis of naturally occurring traits — such as hair and skin pigmentation — in fish and humans to get insight into the general principles by which traits evolve,» said David Kingsley, PhD, professor of developmental biology.

The data can also reveal when changes in human conditions — such as improved sanitation — influenced infection rates more than a pathogen's innate traits.

In fact, personality traits such as honesty and fairness are linked to specific kinds of nonverbal cues, and humans can pick up on these signals during interactions.

Looking at regions of the human genome that have been identified as determining the shape of the face, they found a much higher number of variants than for traits, such as height, not involving the face.

Yet, while scientists have identified several genes that confer specific traits in these species that humans have bred or selected for, such as a special gait in horses, these «are not critical for domestication,» says Leif Andersson, a geneticist at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Thinking about thinking, that quintessentially human state of self - awareness, may not be such a uniquely human trait after all.

Tomas Marques - Bonet of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra noted that studying gene flow between ancient humans such as Neanderthals, Denisovans and the ancestors of modern humans has revealed numerous genes under selection that affect disease and an individual's traits.

Since arithmetic and reading might work at a level below conscious awareness, the study adds support to the idea that such reasoning may not be a uniquely human trait.

Genome - wide association studies of eating disorders in humans have been limited in their power to detect significant associations between genotype and disease or disease traits such as binge eating.

The skull shows a new mix of features not seen before in fossil humans — it has traits that link it to Neandertals, such as a fused brow ridge, as well as some primitive traits that resemble other extinct fossils in Europe.

«Such a mosaic anatomical evolution may well be related to the somewhat similar molecular mosaic evolution between the three species revealed by previous genetic studies: each of the chimpanzees species share about 3 percent of genetic traits with humans that are not present in the other chimpanzee species.»

Those who chose a human face did so because they associated the robot with human care — such as nursing — and trustworthy traits.

Researchers have long assumed that these dramatic transitions resulted in a sort of accelerated evolution in which genes for traits such as skin color and stature changed rapidly to allow humans to survive in their new habitats.

«This is the first gene, to our knowledge... implicated in such pathways,» the authors write, «and it promises to offer insights into the molecular processes mediating this uniquely human trait.»

U.S. researchers shed new light on how these ancient ones still influence genes in modern humans, likely contributing to traits including height and the likelihood of having diseases such as lupus and schizophrenia.

According to Andreassen, the study's senior author, some think of schizophrenia as a «side effect» arising from advantageous variants in genes that are related to the development of human traits, such as cognitive and language skills, that may have increased risks for developing psychoses.

Stem cell researchers from UCLA used a high resolution technique to examine the genome, or total DNA content, of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as individual traits and disease susceptibility.

Hereditary investigations revealed that some degree of inbreeding occurred during these interactions, which scientists said has led to some beneficial traits in modern humans such as having a strong immune system.

Many human traits, such as height and blood sugar, show a similar pattern, and these traits can also be inherited (e.g., tall parents tend to have tall children).

The authors liken such patterns to stable traits observed in humans.

These variants are ubiquitous in human DNA, and researchers working in human genetics have carried out studies which have been able to show how these relate to disease susceptibility as well as traits such as height.

The tool can now identify behavioural traits such as language patterns before human eyes even set sight on the information, allowing trained moderators to focus their efforts on uncovering new scammer trends and removing suspicious parties from the network even more quickly.

It touches on many elements such as rehabilitation of criminals, small town justice, human personality traits, freedom and justice, and conversion to Islam.

As such, eLearning professionals should be well aware of these 6 basic human traits that play a pivotal role in optimizing eLearning experiences.

In this presentation, author and education leader Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners who embody the innately human traits our world desperately needs, such as kindness, honesty, and compassion.

In this presentation, an author and education leader shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners who embody the innately human traits our world desperately needs, such as kindness, honesty, and compassion.

Critiques of such «hereditarian» hypotheses — arguments that genetics can powerfully explain human character traits and even human social and political problems — cite a lack of evidence and weak statistical analyses.

However, such teacher attitudes have never been analyzed on a broad scale, and many analyses of teacher effects focus solely on teachers» human capital, overlooking their social - psychological traits.

Evolutionary Psychology: The evolutionary psychologists believe that a human being's mental and psychological traits, such as memory, perception, language have been affected by psychological adjustments during evolution.

Dog breeds are dogs that have relatively uniform physical characteristics developed under controlled conditions by humans, with breeding animals selected for phenotypic traits such as size, coat color, structure, and behavior.