Sentences with phrase «individual in that species»

Fortunately this is going on all the time with every individual in every species.

It is obvious that not all species, let alone all individuals in any species, survive and flourish — for a variety of reasons.

Not exact matches

They rejected, as Paine wrote, «the savage idea of man considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names.»

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.

In the Amphiprion percula species, there are zero to four individuals excluded from breeding and a breeding pair living in a sea anemonIn the Amphiprion percula species, there are zero to four individuals excluded from breeding and a breeding pair living in a sea anemonin a sea anemone.

In other words, the individuals of each species of migratory bird are slowly diminishing in numbeIn other words, the individuals of each species of migratory bird are slowly diminishing in numbein number.

Morals come from an evolved social construct, or set of rules established by society in order for a group of a species to work together in harmony for the greater good of the group and therefore the individual.

This means, of course, engaging in difficult and complex decisions of justice and care, as we seek to determine the economic, social, political, and cultural rights of individuals in our own species and as we pay attention to the rights of the silent, nonvoting majority which is made up of all the other species.

The focus of investigation is neither the human species in general, nor individual persons, but persons in association.

Individual leaders in the corporate world may be deeply concerned about species diversity, global warming, the pollution of the oceans, the loss of forest cover, and many other matters.

We are accustomed to regard a man as an individual of the species «man,» a being endowed with definite capacities, the development of which brings the human ideal in him to realization — of course with variations in each individual.

Thomas's reply is that something can be a certain something in two ways: either as a complete subsistent individual of a species (as Socrates is of the species man), or in a more generic sense that does not exclude parts, incomplete as they may be, from subsistence.

Time manifested as life multiplies itself in countless individuals, species, genera, phyla, etc., in order to prolong itself, for it can maintain itself only by differentiating itself.

The act of the magisterium is not the same as the act of the Church, but the act of the magisterium is a certain species of the acts which are performed by the individual members of the Church and constitute the action of the Church in a true sense.

It might be argued that the survival success of a species which bases its immediate actions, especially those in which the survival of its individuals is at stake, on a particular experience constitutes a powerful argument for the general reliability of that experience.

Even granting something like the teleological order I have asserted, however, some may doubt that this formulation adequately states our responsibilities to our natural habitat, especially responsibilities to the diversity of species in the nonhuman world and to individual animals, at least within species whose members exhibit the capacity to suffer.

People would stop living for and generally being obsessed with themselves as individuals and start living as social animals for the species, finding their happiness primarily in the pleasures and duties of families and friendship.

But if the same individuals of that species start developing large wings they would outcompete those lineages that had small wings, resulting in their extinction.

In this sense it is evident that Mankind of its nature behaves like a species, and is therefore subject as a whole, as in the case of the individual, to a definite cycle of developmenIn this sense it is evident that Mankind of its nature behaves like a species, and is therefore subject as a whole, as in the case of the individual, to a definite cycle of developmenin the case of the individual, to a definite cycle of development.

Less shallow because it recognizes at least that the individual is not master of his fate and can not live for himself alone, but still shallow in supposing that the human group — class, race or species — can do so.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

While an event is relative in being internally related to other entities of the same logical type; which it requires by a necessity that is «particular and definite,» a species or genus is relative only in that it requires, by a necessity that is «generic or indefinite,» one or more intentional classes (of individuals or of other more specific kinds), all of which are only contingently nonempty (1970a, l0l f., 103, 109).

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

Freedom would only be the indifferent freedom to this or that, the infinite repetition of the same or the contrary (which is only a species of the same), a freedom of the eternal return of the same Ahasverus, if it were not of necessity the final freedom of the subject to itself that is freedom to God, though this truest «object» of freedom might not be conscious in the individual free act.

Its premise is that the individual is in no sense a part of History or his country or his species or anything els.

«Catholic theology affirms that the emergence of the first members of the human species (whether as individuals or in populations) represents an event that is not susceptible of a purely natural explanation and which can appropriately be attributed to divine intervention.»

Against that conclusion we can be grateful for Kant's subordination of the individual to the human species or to Mind as such, and we can be grateful for the linguistic turn that locates reality in shared language.

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

Individual eugenics (The word is used here in its general and etymological sense of «perfection in the continuance and fulfillment of the species».)

Speciation events of the sort you are referring to need not occur in isolation, but can collect with other changes in clusters within individual species.

@Tom, Tom, the Other One: Speciation events of the sort you are referring to need not occur in isolation, but can collect with other changes in clusters within individual species.

The story of Noah exemplifies a key principle in sustainable ecology, namely that species matter more than individuals.

This message is common these days - in church as well as «new age» literature - that we as a species (and more importantly as individuals) presently need to raise our spiritual connection to the Source of Life, individually and on a planetary level, if we wish to survive.

It is commonly believed that Darwin's theory of evolution has disproved the Biblical account of creation in general, and individual creation of species in particular.

Moreover, since it can be applied to divine and angelic individuals as well as human, it defines the human being not only as he is knowable in his relation to the rest of created reality — as one biological species among others, i.e. as a rational animal — but also as he is knowable in his relation to other personal beings, angelic and divine.

The human species, the only one with a spiritual soul, is, as fulfilled by the Incarnation, the purpose of creation in our theology, The breakdown of the individual physical thing is part of the dynamic of evolution across time as it aims at its goal.

The human species currently consists of some six billion individuals spread around the globe in millions of groups large and small, all focused on their own affairs without much concept of any ultimate goal, or the value of their contribution.

A recent attempt to find survival value in consciousness that exceeds anything that a robot could accomplish is Humphrey's (1983) proposal that consciousness evolved in order to help the individual to deal with other members of the species.

The volunteer survey invites participants to list individual species and the greatest number of each seen at one time at feeders and in yards during that weekend.

This new award recognizes an individual for success in the preservation, enhancement, and restoration of a New England species and / or their habitat, as well as an enthusiasm for sharing information about their efforts and a commitment to inspiring future generations of conservation professionals.

The first, Damuth's law, is an inverse relationship between body size and population density: the bigger the species, the fewer of individuals cohabitate in a given area.

Dr. Issa's team made their discovery after first examining methylation patterns on DNA in blood collected from individuals of different ages for each of three species — mouse, monkey, and human.

Faircloth hopes his team will not use any of the samples used in the B10K project, as having DNA sequence from multiple individuals of the same species can be useful.

By picking out individual species and comparing them with fossil records, he can tell the team roughly how far back in time they've drilled.

Also, greater demand is having a negative impact on individual medicinal species and the ecosystems in which they thrive.

His model took into account both an individual plankton's body size and its metabolism's dependence on temperature to quantify how much energy it takes to fuel all the genetic changes that must occur in order for a new species to emerge.

In species like the flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), the behavior may also impart a reproductive advantage, since studies have shown that cannibalistic individuals produce more eggs than non-cannibals.

In some respects the finding is more positive than those of previous assessments of individual species, which suggested some species were more vulnerable than they now appear to be.

In these species, individuals learn that «if an individual smells like your nest or burrow... you don't eat them.»