«If tolerance is to be sustainable and cooperation meaningful, writes Miriam Mason - Sesay (@EducAidSL), it has to be based on how much we have in common
as members of the human family, rather than emphasizing our differences.»
CALGARY — In 2010 paleoanthropologists announced to great fanfare that they had recovered from a South African cave two partial skeletons of a previously
unknown member of the human family that lived nearly two million years ago.
Scientists introduce a
new member of the human family, which was discovered by spelunkers exploring the dark depths of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa.
However, I respect the honesty and pride that some of these featured Pastors have in disclosing the oppressive and violent tenets of their religous system.Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are oppressive and sometimes violent towards
gay members of the human family.
Denying the divine origins of the human person, our government has withdrawn the law's protection from unborn children in the womb» the most absolutely innocent and
defenseless members of our human family.
Hundreds of pro-life protesters listened to the leading Catholic and pro-life peer who condemned the «willful killing of the smallest and most
helpless member of the human family in the very place she should be safest - her mother's womb».
It is a matter of profound importance not only to the mother and newborn, but to all whom birth touches — to families who are celebrating this significant event, to birth workers who are caring for families through this transformative experience, and to societies that must move aside to welcome one
more member of the human family.
But exactly
which member of the human family made and wielded these older tools was unclear, both because no human remains turned up in direct association with the tools and animal bones, and more than one human species lived in the area at this time.
A nearly complete skull of a
mysterious member of the human family was unveiled this week at the same time as researchers reported a surprisingly recent age for this ancient cave dweller in South Africa.
More specifically the scientists provide the first genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with archaic (now - extinct)
members of the human family prior to the migration «out of Africa» of the ancestors of present - day non-Africans, less than 65,000 years ago.
Now, a new study finds that this picture of awkward upright locomotion is wrong:
Early members of the human family, or hominins, were already walking upright with an efficient, straight - legged gait some 4.4 million years ago.
Applying the New Thought principle of universal oneness to conditions of social concern can have profound implications both for how we interact with
other members of the human family and how we care for the earth.
Bailey notes recent discoveries of far more complete fossil humans from South Africa, representing previously
unknown members of the human family — Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi — show evolution mixed and matched modern and archaic traits in unexpected ways in the past.
«If tolerance is to be sustainable and cooperation meaningful,» writes Miriam Mason - Sesay, «it has to be based on how much we have in common
as members of the human family, rather than emphasizing our differences.»
Can we provide
every member of the human family equal protection under the law?
Support for the Declaration entails a recognition that we are all obliged to strive to make such goods available to
all members of the human family.
The Preamble of the Declaration recognizes that the truth «of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of
all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world.»
This applies to
every member of the human family.
It asserts that «recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of
all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.»
Instead of affirming the person's worth and value as a person, as a family member and as
a member of the human family, the feelings of despair are ratified as valid and acceptable.
The Universal Declaration hence speaks of the inherent human dignity of
all members of the human family.
We can choose to extend once again the mantle of protection to
all members of the human family, including the unborn.
According to Al Gore (in a speech on March 21, 1991 to the International Telecommunication Union conference in Buenos Aires), «The President of the United States and I believe that an essential prerequisite to sustainable development, for
all members of the human family, is the creation of a Global Information Infrastructure.
The centrepiece of the UN Nations Charter is the connection between the recognitionof the inherent dignity of
all members of the human family (and of the inviolable and inalienable human rights which derive from that recognition) on the one hand, and peace and justice within and among nation states on the other.
This is certainly obvious in terms of widening the area of human co-operation — in uniting families into peaceful communities with equitable distribution of responsibilities and privileges, and then creating from these the larger communities of states and nations, and finally developing from these a world society dedicated to the fullest realization of
every member of the human family.
They add to the cruelty and ugliness of death and reinforce the idea that the helpless person is no longer
a member of the human family.
When he opened them, he could more clearly see the gray fossil poking out of the bleached sand and mudstone, and he realized that he had found the jawbone of a hominin —
a member of the human family.
Einstein also saw himself as
a member of the human family.
Among them were saber - toothed cats, Etruscan wolves, hyenas the size of lions — and early
members of the human family.
Between about 200,000 and a million years ago, our view of human origins is blurred — most of the fossils of hominins, or
members of the human family, are isolated, fragmentary, or spread widely across Europe, Asia, and Africa.