Sentences with phrase «larger than that of humans»

The genome is complex and seven times larger than that of humans.

Not only does the Norway spruce have huge economic and ecological importance, the genome is also complex and seven times larger than that of humans.

The brain of a human is dominated by the visual cortex, but the brain of a dog is controlled by the smell or olfactory cortex, which is approximately 40 times larger than that of a human.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This remainder is far larger in human experience than in most other occasions of experience, but no event is wholly determined without remainder by its past.

The largest human catastrophe of Stalinism was the famine of 1930 — 1933, in which more than five million people died.»

Sometimes in the questions raised in Miss Mac Donald's article, it seems that she is thinking of God as though he were just a larger - than - life human being, or another item in the inventory of the universe.

Since each of the constituent human beings of a civilized society is itself more ultimate metaphysically than is the larger social whole, it follows that a civilized society is really only a relational unity composed of many individuals related as one socially.

That is, just as a Society is metaphysically a derivative type of existent inasmuch as its constituent actual entities are ontologically ultimate, so in an equivalent fashion, a civilized society is metaphysically secondary inasmuch as human beings are more real, ontologically speaking, than is the larger civilized society.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.

On the other hand, it doesn't take philosophy to know that God is more than a projection of human traits, writ large.

Such a commitment to Jesus amid the claims and counterclaims of a secular society needs to be understood rather than disparaged, and, if possible, directed toward a larger vision of Jesus and his message for the totality of human life.1

Making religion serve human ideas of peace can deny religion's orientation to something larger than this world.

To his students, Webb was larger than life, the vanguard of intellectual conservatism, a fully human genius.

So, inevitably, the researchers at Monash will produce just another large body of comparative cognitive studies — humans are better than cephalopods at crossword puzzles, no photodiodes can play chess but many Belgians can... that sort of thing — all meretriciously tricked out in the useless patois of Integrated Information Theory.

Start with the bloat and waste in Depts of Education and Health and Human Services whose combined budgets are much larger than the DoD.

The number of unborn and children who have died due to natural causes is literally thousands of times larger than those killed by the actions of human dictators.

In the course of human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences by placing them in a larger than ordinary context.

This theory is no more plausible or implausible than blind faith except there actually is a large body of evidence to support this theory across all human cultures and «mythologies» (See Zecharia Sitchin, Rael, G. Cope Schellhorn, many others).

By liberal Braaten means the theological liberalism that Karl Barth spoke of as a «heresy» — the view that Christian language for God represents universal human feeling writ large on the cosmos rather than God's address to humanity in a Word that disrupts preexisting categories.

These oils contain very large amounts of Omega - 6 fatty acids, way more than humans ever consumed throughout evolution.

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.

He's NOT god he's NOT infallable, fine we are all only human but to deny there are better players out there than the ones he has is 1) arrogant and 2) a plain lie To justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wages.

Snaith the sailor, like Snaith in tota, is man unconfined, usually human and still unsterilized — a painter often in need of a canvas larger than he can stretch on a frame.

The idea is that grasping the hows and whys embedded in human knowledge (in the larger social context) results in a far greater sense of confidence and empowerment than instilling rote responses to likely standardized testing scenarios.

When comparing human and veterinary use of antibiotics, it failed to acknowledge the vastly different population sizes as well as the fact that livestock such as cattle and pigs weigh more than people and thus will require a larger volume of antibiotic to treat an infection than a person will.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

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Humans kill large carnivores — a category of animals that includes wolves, bears, lions, tigers and pumas — at more than nine times their mortality rate in the wild.

Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size — by way of extinction — at least 90,000 years earlier than previously thought, says a new study published in the journal Science.

The find on Luzon, the largest and northernmost major island in the Philippines, suggests humans got there at least 67,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than thought.

But how did the human brain get larger than that of our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, if almost all of our genes are the same?

The largest increase would go to developing a rocket capable of taking humans beyond Earth orbit; the Constellation project would more than double, to $ 1.12 billion in 2006.

«A human may notice if a larger than usual number of changes appear, but what if the number is only a few more a day?