Sentences with phrase «in higher animals»

Overall, it is known that DDT concentrates in biological systems (particularly in body fat), that it is a toxin, and that it bioaccumulates up the food chain, reaching its greatest concentrations in higher animals such as humans.

The researchers now want to study whether the signal molecules in higher animals, such as mice, have the same effect.

Until this year, the oldest evidence of copulation in higher animals came from 180 - million - year - old fossils of fish giving birth.

The study identifies a wide set of genes — previously associated with complex structures in higher animals — which were supposedly absent in sponges.

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.

He notes that in the higher animals genetic evolution of social behaviour will be a key factor.

It can also leave us hostages to fortune as new discoveries reveal amazing abilities in higher animals.

But these conclusions are very cogent in higher animals.

However, at least in the higher animals, such responses can be overcome by association of other entities with the signal.

I also know an orthopedic surgeon who believes in high animal protein diet (well he is an orthopedic surgeon, so I do nt know what to expect: — RRB --RRB- My conclusion: The way to a healthy eating society is NOT through M.D. «s. Regarding health most doctors are morons....

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The country also is estimated to have the highest sheer number and diversity of plants and animals for its size, meaning it's the most dense country for biodiversity in the world.

The jaunty outlook is recharging animal spirits in corner offices: In its January survey of small companies, the National Federation of Independent Business found that 32 % of the enterprises rated the present climate «a good time to expand»; that was a record high and a threefold increase from late 201in corner offices: In its January survey of small companies, the National Federation of Independent Business found that 32 % of the enterprises rated the present climate «a good time to expand»; that was a record high and a threefold increase from late 201In its January survey of small companies, the National Federation of Independent Business found that 32 % of the enterprises rated the present climate «a good time to expand»; that was a record high and a threefold increase from late 2016.

Between high costs, high energy use, and even the possibility of environmental destruction — seawater treatment plants can accidentally take in and kill small marine animals — continued research is needed to make the technology safer and more efficient.

As has been pointed out by several authors, rising living standards in the developing world have seen rising demand for a higher - protein diet and hence grain to feed animals.

National animal nonprofits and lobbying groups — which often are at odds with one another on issues and legislation — struck a similar chord in saying the purchase of auction dogs at high prices was something other than a form of rescue.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

My point was that they may not be denied those rights even if, in some respects, they may not seem as developed as some of the higher animals, because rights belong to the whole human species, and thus to all its members.

The only animal with a higher consciousness, the ability to reason, but many prefer to live in their lower nature.

He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven... The higher animals have no religion.

To be specific, a human being or higher - order animal organism is an ongoing subject of experience in and through its dominant subsociety of occasions; but the coordination therewith required to sustain the flow of consciousness can only be achieved through the collaboration and coordination of millions of sub-fields of activity, subordinate layers of social order, within the organism.

Recently, Singer repeated this assertion in an interview in the Journal of Practical Ethics, arguing that people with serious developmental and cognitive disabilities have less value than animals with higher capacities, strongly implying that we can treat them accordingly (my emphasis):

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

Outside the rarified environs of the high academy and the fever swamps of animal rights advocacy, most people in the West believe that the lives of all human beings — not just the «normal» ones — are worth more than animals», simply because they are human.

Eventually, as a result of chance mutations in DNA, accidental modifications subjected to the pressure of natural selection, there emerge the «higher» animals and, at last, man.

You mean, we were without morals, like other animals, in the beginning and then we achieved higher intelligence (not part of God's plan for us BTW).

(I interpret «life and death» here to refer to the impermanence spoken of above, also to the fragmentation of values as scattered about, a little in me, some in you, some in other higher animals, indeed as Buddhists assert some even in lower animals, all of these perishable.)

Evidence of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies of all higher forms of life, in which the cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in human societies, where the growth of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.

Whitehead attributes morality to the higher animals, in addition to their enjoyment of form.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

The higher animals have learned to interpret these sense - qualities, thus perceived, as symbols of the actualities in the external world — actualities which are themselves perceived only by vague feelings of their causal agency.

I can see myself in others and we are motivated typically to help each other — you see it in all animals; especially herd animals and we are simply a higher order herd.

In the case of the higher animals, this service requires a considerable activity on its part, both conscious and unconscious.

However, the lowliest worms have sense organs, nerve cells and nerve centers, and these cells function more or less in the same manner as those of higher animals.

The hi - low «Joy Dress» comes in an all over animal inspired print and has a high round neckline.

Similarly, the aims for most living occasions include no (or few) hybrid prehensions, whereas the aim for a dominant occasion in an animal organism is heavily weighted toward hybrid prehensions of past dominant occasions, which in the case of higher organisms jointly constitute the soul or living person.

Alcohol acts as a narcotic — first, in suppressing the higher mental functions and then, as larger doses are taken, in reducing a person to the animal level and finally to unconscious vegetative immobility.

As the Bible underlines, the Almighty is no species - egalitarian; the creation accounts bring man and woman into view as the summit of the visible creation, with everything else placed at their service, and in general, with lower things being placed at the service of higher ones (plants are given to animals for food, and later, after the flood, animals are given to men for food).

In vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavioIn vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavioin very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavioin the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavior.

In the animal realm, as a simple biological fact, the sexual drive, desire, and equipment are directed toward the reproduction of the race, with a high degree of excitation to promote this — and perhaps also with some trace of affection on the part of those who engage in sexual activitIn the animal realm, as a simple biological fact, the sexual drive, desire, and equipment are directed toward the reproduction of the race, with a high degree of excitation to promote this — and perhaps also with some trace of affection on the part of those who engage in sexual activitin sexual activity.

In contrast to some Christian views of the soul, it should also be noted at the outset that Whitehead's understanding of the soul applies to the higher animals as well as to man.

In the case of humans, and presumably of the higher animals as well, these dominant occasions are so ordered as to constitute enduring objects.

High in the forest - covered hills, too, a right relationship exists between trees and earth and forest animals and insects.

This spontaneity may be minimal for protons and electrons, but in the course of the evolutionary advance, sustained until now, it has manifested itself in ever richer forms as the vitality of living cells, the conscious activity of the higher animals, and the self - conscious freedom of man.

Whitehead underscored this continuity by including «higher animals» in his definition of «living person.»

Therein he argues, first, that Whiteheadian societies are reductively only aggregates of actual entities, and, secondly, that higher organic compounds (e.g., animal bodies) must be regarded as substances in their own right (NPE 284 - 96).

The animal body, containing everything from the ultimate elements to the highest perfection of material entity as a unity in itself, sums up in itself all that the material Universe is.

And on what is, in a sense, a higher level still we have the disquieting example of such animal groups as termites, ants and bees, our ancestors in the Tree of Life, which, afflicted by an evil of which we seem to perceive the symptoms in ourselves, have lapsed into a state of social enslavement — the very fate towards which an implacable destiny seems to be impelling us.

It also has led to outright inconsistency: «A scientific realism, based on mechanism, is conjoined with an unwavering belief in the world of men and of the higher animals as being composed of self - determining organisms» (SMW 110).

What Griffin seems to have in mind here, are worlds that would be radically different from the world as it actually exists — worlds in which, for Instance, beings capable of high - level intrinsic values exist without predation, 4 or in which we and other animals could have existed without requiring food.

It has «real relevance» in non-human animals, so much so that a primitive sense of moral obligation can be found in the higher species of the animal kingdom (MT 28).