Sentences with phrase «natural human trait»

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Breeding for specific traits and characteristics is nothing more than human intervention in natural selection.

That's a natural trait of humans, developed by evolution.

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.

Adopting the second view not only fits our natural intuitions of the other animals, especially the higher forms, but fits also the evolutionary scheme according to which our human traits are intensifications and elaborations of traits found in our prehuman ancestors.

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.

«While human microbes are natural to humans, enclosed environments over-enriched in human bacteria might facilitate transmission of bacteria or bacterial traits, such as antibiotic resistance, for example MRSA,» said Maria - Gloria Dominquez - Bello, associate professor at New York University School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

As to whether confusion is a predominantly human trait, I think that a suitable definition of confusion would be «a lack of understanding», so unless we first imbue animals with «understanding», their natural state is confusion so appearing confused or flumoxed would be unlikely.

At one point, he explained that so many more babies survive childbirth now that natural selection, as proposed by Charles Darwin, can not act on humans to favor infants with traits that are beneficial today or to weed out those with adaptations that impair survival.

The huge diversity of dogs resulted not from natural selection but from generations of humans crossbreeding and selecting animals with traits they wanted — the ability to chase foxes into holes, or herd sheep, or sit attractively on a sofa.

Nicole was trained in quantitative population and statistical genetics at the University of Milano, University of Dundee and University College London, where she applied genetic analysis to evolutionary studies of natural populations and human traits.

An international team of scientists from Australia, the Netherlands, Estonia and the United States has detected significant signatures of natural selection in the human genome that influence traits associated with fertility and heart function.

A Natural Ritual The art of conversing is a purely human trait, evolved over millennia.

When a pet can show very human - like personality traits, it's natural for us to start thinking of them as nearly human in some ways.

In most breeds, we have removed many of the natural, God - given instincts and traits of wild dogs in order to make them more useful or enjoyable to humans.

As female agent BloodRayne, players will be able to tap into her natural talents for hunting down enemies by using her traits as both a human and vampire.

Regarding something mentioned earlier on another blog entry, it seems that a couple of traits which were the result of aeons of natural selection, human intelligence, especially the ability to retain information outside of our genes, and human compassion, are being tested to determine if they are desirable.

Political unrest, natural disasters and maternal stress are among a long list of traits suggested to lower the male bias in human sex ratios [4], [5], whereas during the First and Second World Wars in Europe, a more male - biased SSR has been documented [6].

The consensus seems to be that climate denial is an organized attempt to disprove climate scientists, but I believe it is the result of human traits; when faced with overwhelming evidence of future disasters over which we have little or no control, our natural instinct will be ignorance (which can literally be translated into stupidity) or shoot the messenger if he persists.