Sentences with phrase «larger than a human»

Many people believe that consciousness pervades matter, or that all is mental in substance or that other organizations of matter larger than humans may have something resembling consciousness.

The issue is much larger than human greed.

Wheat and its wild ancestors have genomes much larger than humans, which makes sequencing difficult.

At 20 billion bases of DNA, the newly sequenced genome of the Norway spruce, a popular Christmas tree in Europe that can reach heights above 30 meters, is six times larger than the human genome.

«The sunflower genome is over 40 percent larger than the maize [corn] genome, and roughly 20 percent larger than the human genome, and its highly repetitive nature made it a unique challenge for assembly.»

Their eggs are almost 30 times larger than a human's.

But Andalgalornis also sported a raptor - like hooked beak attached to a skull much larger than a human's and far outweighing that of a bald eagle (photo).

Twisting together a bundle of polyethylene fishing lines, whose total diameter is only about 10 times larger than a human hair, produces a coiled polymer muscle that can lift 16 pounds.

Twisting together a bundle of polyethylene fishing lines, whose total diameter is only about 10 times larger than a human hair, produces a coiled polymer muscle that can lift 7.2 kilograms, the team found.

They're plentiful in the ocean, with an estimated biomass of 379 - million tons (a biomass significantly larger than humans» estimated 100 - million tons), and they're a popular meal item for sea animals like whales, birds and other fish, placing them solidly at the bottom of the ocean's food chain.

And they are so many times larger than the humans that I was reminded of the scale used in «The Incredible Shrinking Man.»

Normally our esophagus, which is the muscular tube used for swallowing, is very small and empty when we are not eating — no larger than a human thumb in diameter.

This is due to the fact that the cat's nasal organ is much larger than a human's meaning that it has many more cells than that of human.

She projected the video on four silos, the bees hundreds of times larger than human size and thousands of times larger than insect size.

Slightly larger than human scale, the sculptures are constructed from square steel tubing — crushed into soft folds and painted in vivid colors — and assembled with found steel and other industrial elements.

Toguo explains the vases as larger than a human being, symbolizing our relationship to water, being both purifying and a possible source of contaminations.

It is larger than a human but not overwhelming.

The viewer can meander through the steel blocks and step back to look at Intervals as a whole, though it is impossible to look at the overall sculpture without a person popping into, view since no single rectangle is larger than a human.

The phrase «human nature» misleads the question, because «nature» in other uses describes systems larger than humans which human can't change.

The second statement ignores the fact that although natural emissions are much larger than human emissions, the natural carbon cycle is in balance.

It is true that natural CO2 «fluxes» — the exchanges between atmosphere and other parts of the Earth system — are far larger than the human contribution.

If you are fully familiar with the figures, which show natural emissions are roughly 30 times larger than human emissions, then I suggest you consider the honesty of your statement.

- The increase in the atmosphere is larger than the human emissions.

If one of the inputs increased a tenfold in one year (all volcanoes together...), and the outputs can't cope with that, that would be noticed as an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, larger than the human emissions alone.

At scales far smaller and far larger than human scales the action of scientific «laws» becomes equivocal.

To have most of the additional carbon of the atmosphere from other sources than human influence these other sources must be larger than the human influence.

I am well aware of the reality that natural source and sinks are magnitudes larger than human emissions.

And of course, the most obvious fraud perpetrated by the AGW gang is to demand that solar and galactic effects that are orders of magnitude larger than any human activity be simply excluded from analysis.

Using mostly reclaimed, recycled and / or sustainably harvested materials, some of his shelters are little - larger than a human body.

Not exact matches

The world's largest cockroach farm is breeding 6 billion adult cockroaches a year and using artificial intelligence to manage a colony larger than the world's human population — all for medicinal use.

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This year's study surveyed more than 240 human resource professionals from large employers (3,000 + employees) at the close of 2016 to identify the most notable trends companies are employing to improve the health and well - being of their employees.

Seventy - five percent of HR professionals say employee absences have a large impact on revenue and productivity, a 2014 study of more than 1,000 respondents worldwide by Kronos and the Society for Human Resource Management revealed.

This was supported by findings in the Equality and Human Rights Commission report in 2008 which said that at the current rate of change, it would take more than 70 years to achieve a gender balance in the boardrooms in the UK's largest 100 companies.

The offense against religion is that it promotes a God that has poorly designed humans to have too small a birth canal, too large a cranium (pushing wisdom teeth into often painful positions), and since roughly 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage, is responsible for more abortions than anyone.

Jonah being swallowed by a whale is a story that resonates with a shared human experience — being engulfed by something larger than ourselves and then being spewed out by it.

Did the godless communists like Stalin an Mao kill a larger percentage of the human population than the Christian crusaders?

Human beings are alot more complicated than simple black & white on this subject.There is a large amount of gray area that most people in the world float in on the subject of spirituality.

Strip mines are ugly gashes in the landscape, yes, but they don't have a negative environmental impact — or more precisely no impact more negative than that of any large - scale human enterprise.

Although the Nazis ultimately intended the destruction of a far larger segment of humankind than just the Jews, their murder of Jews was precisely because they were Jews, not undifferentiated «human beings.»

I also believe the fact that they comprise a much larger segment of history than humans do, and that it is insane that they would have been left out of the bible if it were really the «truth» passed on by an all knowing god.

In fact, the largest group, Christians, make up less than 1/3 of the human population.

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

But it does mean we should be more than defensive, and should always be careful to highlight the nature and the appeal of what we are defending, and so of what we are offering — the larger human good in the service of which some constraints on our individual will and power are required.

(CNN)- Each year, more than 3 million Muslims commit to Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that represents the fifth and final «pillar» of Islam and the largest annual human gathering on the planet.

the loss of the fully personal to the imperialism of a single - visioned mindscape, we are led to entertain the possibilities that human life is larger than currently conceived, and that the experience and concept of play might provide the contemporary person with a way into these larger realities.

Since human relations other than market transactions counted for nothing in economics, economists favored larger and larger markets — today, a global market.

But to find this still point, we must look to a larger world than that of ourselves or of purely human society.

Larger portions than a human should consume but it's soooooo good.

While you may scoff at trying to form a personal relationship with any large cosmic force greater than yourself, thinking them innate stardust whose signals can not even propagate fast enough for such communication, others marvel it's effectiveness and capable mechanisms which remain out of reach for human science at present.