The phrase
"human uniqueness" refers to the special characteristics and abilities that set humans apart from other creatures. It encompasses our capacity for complex emotions, advanced thinking and reasoning skills, creativity, language, and culture. It highlights the distinct attributes that make humans different and more advanced compared to other species on Earth.
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Ultimately, he hopes that continued breakthroughs across the broad science
of human uniqueness will fuel tolerance of differences, uncover hidden talents, and enable stronger human connections.
And it will reflect
human uniqueness in the sense I described earlier: our evolutionary success may compete with that of microbes in our impact on the earth's environment.
Every time some discovery is made that
challenges human uniqueness, there's a flurry of activity to try and find some other way in which we're unique.
Her work evolves from various interconnected personalities, and is highly rooted in a curiosity about and exploration of aspects
of human uniqueness.
Author Zanna Clay said that the findings show that «more research needs to be done on our great ape relatives before we can make conclusions
about human uniqueness.
They share some useful thoughts on a range of issues, in particular
regarding human uniqueness in comparison with other animals, and the neuroscience of religiousness.
(The account of
human uniqueness given by faith offers a fascinating approach to the problem of «ensoulment».)
While the issue of consciousness is of great philosophical interest, the high humanism at stake in such discussions is often more of a problem for theology than the denial that consciousness is necessary to
sustain human uniqueness.
Sagan and Druyan correctly condemn scholars for succumbing to an inner urge to
emphasise human uniqueness, but in their unwise use of florid language commit the crime of anthropomorphising.
«It could change our perception
of human uniqueness, that we share some of that ability not just with chimpanzees and closely related species but also with a very different species.»
WHEN Jane Goodall first reported that chimps use tools, our concept of
human uniqueness was rocked.
What is
human uniqueness, and how did it contribute to what we could now call behavioral modernity?
Led by ASU professors anthropologist Kim Hill and paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean, co-organizers of the event, the panel of scientists agreed to adopt a working definition that
human uniqueness is the «underlying capacity to produce complexity,» and to think of behavioral modernity as «the expression» of those capacities.
Says Pääbo: «This is just the beginning of the exploration of
human uniqueness that is now possible.»
Representatives of each of these disciplines gathered February 19 - 22 at a workshop, «Origins of
Human Uniqueness and Behavioral Modernity,» staged by Arizona State University's Origins Project to discuss recent advances in their respective fields.
«One of the last strongholds of
human uniqueness is our ability to powerfully throw stones or spears at distant targets,» Schuster says.
«It could change our perception of
human uniqueness, that we share some of that ability not just with chimpanzees and closely related species but also with a very different species,» co-author Cameron Buckner, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, said in a statement.
In the process I have come to doubt many of
the human uniqueness claims about language and music.
The action sequences are cleverly executed, the jokes are laugh - a-minute, and the message about conformity and
human uniqueness is a strong and important one.