Sentences with phrase «human traits which»

Thus the expression «Man is a wolf» invites us to consider human traits which might be analogous to familiar wolf - traits.

After seeing this movie last Saturday, I thought the main message was that IMAGINATION is a wonderful, human trait which should not be squelched.

Not exact matches

For Wood we do not need to posit something ahistorically and cross-culturally universal to all human beings, something «objective» like an invisible and immortal soul (which paideia presupposed in ancient Athens), of which «dispositions» and «character traits» are modifications.

If I do, I shall inevitably exist displaying all those abstract traits by virtue of which I am a human being.

The suggestion may point us to a clue about certain traits in human personality which are necessary conditions of creativity.

Since in other places, however, he makes a strong case for human equality, which is not a function of particular traits or virtues, perhaps I am reading incorrectly what he means by «democratizing.»

Turning away from orthodox Christianity because of the emotional excesses of frontier evangelism, he found it easier as a young man to accept what was called the Doctrine of Necessity, which he defined as the belief â $ ˜that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.â $ ™ Later, he frequently quoted to his partner, William H. Herndon, the lines for Hamlet: â $ ˜Thereâ $ ™ s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough â $ «hew them how he will.â $ ™ â $ œFrom Lincolnâ $ ™ s fatalism derived some of his most lovable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his willingness to overlook mistakes.

This is why I prefer to turn toward some structures of the interpretation of human experience to discern there those traits through which something has always been comprehensible under the idea of revelation understood in a religious sense of the term.

Adopting the second view not only fits our natural intuitions of the other animals, especially the higher forms, but fits also the evolutionary scheme according to which our human traits are intensifications and elaborations of traits found in our prehuman ancestors.

In all cases of domestication, the cultivated forms tend to develop fruits larger than the wild varieties; botanists are not certain whether this trait is the result of better cultural techniques or the natural tendency for humans to pick the largest fruits, which contain next years» seed.

-LRB-...) transhumanism suffers from a Nietzschean utopianism that lacks common sense, because it ignores the ways in which the technologies for altering human traits are limited in both their technical means and their moral ends.

She came from a working class background to become a well - respected human rights lawyer, using the traits which make this autobiography so effective.

The IWAH did correlate with all these traits, but showed itself to be a distinct construct which manifested in a greater commitment to universal human rights, willingness to aid others, and greater acquired knowledge of international aid issues.

If so, it would mean that, rather than being an 18,000 - year - old representative of a new species, the hobbit was just a modern human with a growth disorder that left it with a brain the size of a grapefruit, among other odd traits, which is what critics have argued all along.

«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.

I see what you you are getting at, and would be interested to know which emotional traits have been identified in animals that are also shared by humans.

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

This new work on black rice helps explain the history of domestication of rice by ancient humans, during which they selected for desirable traits including grain color.

This approach also has limitations as it impedes comparisons with findings in other studies and other species, which is essential if you want to use research on chimpanzees to better understand the evolution of human personality traits.»

Also, the pigmentation of axolotls varies greatly from one cell to the next, unlike in humans or other animals, in which cell traits tend to be uniform.

Bronte, like so many other 19th century intellectuals, was fascinated by phrenology, which explained human personality traits by charting the bumps on the skull.

For years, scientists pondering which hominid species were capable of making tools have relied on a simple test based on anatomical traits in the human thumb.

This is evidence in humans of assortative mating, which is a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar traits mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating.

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.

But the new - found fossils» traits do not neatly fit A. sediba into the hominin family tree, which includes only humans and our ancestors and extinct cousins.

Sometimes, this takes the form of understanding recent adaptations that have evolved within human populations, which gives us an insight into the challenges that our ancestors faced and the kind of traits that helped them survive and prosper.

This neat behavior could mean that the birds possess so - called Theory of Mind — an ability to predict the mental state of another animal (or in other words, to theorize that this other animal has a mind), which is one of the defining traits of humans and closely related primates.

Further, his group pioneered expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies, which enabled variation in global gene expression to be applied to genetics of complex human diseases.

During her residency in Human Genetics at the University of Bonn she pursued her research interest both in immunology and human genetics by investigating expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), which underpin innate immune responses, and provide mechanistic insights to complement genome - wide association stuHuman Genetics at the University of Bonn she pursued her research interest both in immunology and human genetics by investigating expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), which underpin innate immune responses, and provide mechanistic insights to complement genome - wide association stuhuman genetics by investigating expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), which underpin innate immune responses, and provide mechanistic insights to complement genome - wide association studies.

The fossils of the creature, named after the Rising Star cave system in which they were discovered — «naledi» means «star» in the local Sesotho language — paint the picture of an ancient hominin that possessed a mixture of human and ape - like traits.

«We don't understand enough yet about the human genome, and how genes interact, and which genes give rise to certain traits to edit for human enhancement today,» she said.

Much like domesticated animals, which we breed to specifically favor certain traits, humans are influenced by a sort of unnatural selection.

The Human Connectome Project, which is an international effort to map the connectomes of 1,000 people on a macro scale — mostly just the white matter, or active myelinated (insulated) nerve cell bundles — using magnetic resonance imaging, this week announced its finding that brain wiring patterns correlate with behavioral and demographic traits.

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.

He has advocated the public release of individual genomes with the view that a growing database in which scientists can compare DNA profiles with health histories and traits will help them understand in greater detail the impact of genetics upon human health.

Her main achievement, however, was the assessment of important components of the human microbiome and to unreval major functional traits, which induce derivation of data sets.

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.

Which traits distinguish humans from other primates?

Franco captures that while Wiseau's mouth, which perpetually feels like it's full of peanut butter and / or cotton - mouth - inducing pills may be joylessly droning, «Ha ha ha», the eyes betray that he has no idea what he's supposed to find amusing, but apparently «laughing» is a common trait of these «humans» so as long as he's at least attempting to pass among their ranks, he might as well give it a shot.

Whether you use the definition of giftedness from the United States Office of Education (US Department of Education, 1993), which describes these students as» children and youth with outstanding talent who perform or show the potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment», or as Renzulli (1978) does as the intersection and interaction among three basic clusters of human traits — above average ability, high levels of task commitment, and high levels of creativity, it is arguably the concept of asychronicity that educators must address.

But existence is so complex that the human mind, which is less complex than the existence it seeks to understand, has to abstract from its experiences comparatively simple ideas that it then uses to symbolize general traits of existence.

Borgi said a yet - to - be published follow - up experiment, in which both children and adults judged the cuteness of animal and human pictures with manipulated facial traits (more or less infantile), similarly found «no effects of having dogs at home but a statistically significant effect of cat ownership.»

In fact, before the 70s, the word «anthropomorphic,» which means giving human traits to animals, was thrown at anyone who believed an animal capable of having fun without any purpose.

In any case, the dog's rapid adoption of human - desired traits is fossilized in genomic data, which scientists are tracing back through the millennia.

The pushed in face, which produces more wrinkles, the shorter, much stockier body frame, the severe underbite, all of these things are a result of traits that humans have manipulated,» said Dr. Laheney.

For another, the ancient canines had to adapt to their new human environment in more ways than one — for example, their diet changed, which favored different physical traits.

Some of these physical traits also prevent dogs from properly communicating non-verbally with humans and other dogs — which leads to cases of aggression resulting in biting.

You've just been tasked with discovering which genes in the human genetic code do what by forcefully genetically engineering babies to have certain traits defined by which genes you switch on.

Which human traits and behaviours do we want to assign machines, which are we able to, and where do we draw the Which human traits and behaviours do we want to assign machines, which are we able to, and where do we draw the which are we able to, and where do we draw the line?

Regarding something mentioned earlier on another blog entry, it seems that a couple of traits which were the result of aeons of natural selection, human intelligence, especially the ability to retain information outside of our genes, and human compassion, are being tested to determine if they are desirable.