Sentences with phrase «of animal characteristics»

Through the conscious and unconscious appropriation of animal characteristics humankind evolves into a new form: the «Humanimal»».

Not exact matches

You talked about animal spirits, which I have heard you talk about before, and I have also been supportive of that notion in the sense of capital markets because bubbles often flow from exuberance and optimism and all those characteristics.

Since badger hair used in shaving brushes is harvested from various parts of the animal's pelt, the hair itself displays characteristic differences depending on precisely where on the animal the hair is procured.

Interpenetrating the negative factors already mentioned was the practice of animal sacrifice as the characteristic way of approaching God.

The context of Genesis 1:26 - 27 gives us the best clues as to what is meant by «image» and it probably refers to the things that set us apart from animals — our intellect, emotions, will, authority to rule over creation, desire for relationships, and other non-physical attributes and characteristics.

Regarding the latter, classical theologians typically limit self - determining (free) creatures on this earth to humans (Or perhaps also to certain higher animals), 1 while process theologians typically would affirm that creative self - determination is characteristic of all beings.

Classical theologians typically limit self - determining (free) creatures on this earth to humans (or perhaps also to certain higher animals), while process theologians typically would affirm that creative self - determination is characteristic of all beings.

Premack states that «the curious consequence of language training seems to be that it weakens the characteristic difference between person and animal.

angel, open, number, lamb, star, book, thunder, dragon (snake), seven, animal, beast, throne, horse, smoke, white, great, repent, temple, conquer, like, wear (clothing), blow («plague»), gate, fire, blow (trumpet), mouth, seal, four, third, vial, voice, thousand, and gold — all of them characteristic of apocalyptic - symbolic writing.

Whereas we can posit the presence of receptive consciousness wherever a developed central nervous system is to be found in the animal world, and of organization by signals wherever learning is possible, symbolic organization of consciousness or reflective consciousness depends on the power of symbolization, which is the distinguishing characteristic of man.

Nevertheless, quite obviously, there are characteristics of the behavior of a living animal that are not directly examined in this manner.

Worship, as a characteristic action of man the religious animal, consists in the offering of self to God and the returning gift of enhanced life, in communion with God, for man.

He has received his life, his existence, his peculiar being from God, precisely as the thousands of animals have their characteristics from God.

This lack of interest in the subjective experience of nonhuman animals seems characteristic of other deep ecologists as well.

Yet, for process thinkers, an important value, the virtue of creativity, is the zest for novelty and adventure — characteristics of life itself, particularly in the more complex forms, such as animals with central nervous systems.

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

Evolutionary theory needs to take account of the interaction between short - term purposive behavior on the part of animals and the survival value of particular characteristics.

Most of the illustrations in the extant handbooks are fantastic allegorizations of the characteristics of animals applied to humankind or stories of preposterous miracles by the saints or the Virgin Mary.

These modifications take DNA from one strain of bacteria, plant or animal and insert them into another strain in order to change the characteristics of the original species.

Each piece is beautifully illustrated with animals, plants and the characteristics of each season.

Learn how the physical characteristics of body shape, leg length and foot type determine each animal's track pattern and apply this knowledge to solve track mysteries.

Rats given access to high - fat foods showed some of the same characteristics as animals hooked on cocaine or heroin — and found it hard to quit even when given electric shocks

Known as a triple transgenic model, the animals develop three key characteristics of the disease: memory impairment, amyloid plagues, and neurofibrillary tangles.

To come up with the traits, researchers analyzed the characteristics of more than 280 animals, living and dead, they write this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The differences they found in the cat genome help explain characteristics such as why cats are almost exclusively carnivorous and how their vision and sense of smell differ from other animals like dogs.

New research from McLean Hospital neuroscientists shows in an animal model that being bullied can have long - term, dramatic effects on sleep and other circadian rhythm - related functions, symptoms that are characteristic of clinical depression and other stress - induced mental illnesses.

«They are perceived as lacking most of the psychological characteristics we recognize in other intelligent animals and are typically thought of as possessing a low level of intelligence compared with other animals,» Marino says.

For each of the nearly 100 dinosaur skulls he studied, Mallon measured 12 characteristics that are known to relate to diet in modern animals.

Larsson is at the forefront of merging paleontology and molecular biology in an effort to connect major evolutionary changes — the development of new species and new characteristics, new shapes and structures, new kinds of animals — to changes in specific genes and in how those genes are regulated.

Again and again, animals of various species domesticated at different times in different parts of the world develop the same domestication syndrome characteristics: more extensive breeding periods; smaller brains, hearts and teeth; small or floppy ears; spotted coats; curly hair and tails; variable numbers of vertebrae in the spine; and juvenile faces with shorter snouts.

The gull chick principle may apply widely, because the visual system of every animal is wired to use specific characteristics to identify others of its species.

That type of facial remodeling is part of the domestication syndrome, which also includes curly tails, floppy ears and other characteristics common among domesticated animals but not wild ones.

«Although we saw some of the hallmark characteristics of bilateral growth and development, we don't believe Dickinsonia was a precursor to today's bilaterians, rather that these are two distinct groups that shared a common set of ancestral genes that are present throughout the animal lineage,» Evans said.

Now, a new study reveals that the calls of animals contain more languagelike characteristics than previously believed.

Titze and his colleagues, Tobias Riede of Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona and Ted Mau of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, compiled measurements of larynx characteristics for 16 species, including humans and animals ranging from mice to elephants.

Many volatile compounds can now be detected quite well by «electronic noses» that were inspired by the olfactory receptors of animals and provide characteristic chemical fingerprints for scents and mixtures of scents.

Few other animals are known to show that characteristic, none of them invertebrates.

This practice is fraught with risk, however: If the genetic make - up of any animal contains an unidentified defect, this characteristic will be passed on to future generations.

The King lab at Berkeley has pioneered the exploration of the origins of multicellularity by looking at choanoflagellates for shared characteristics and behaviors conserved by evolution in animals.

Linnaeus compared the drawings of different types of plants and animals and recognized that certain flora and fauna shared characteristics.

A characteristic of ctenophores is that they have the longest cilia and rely more heavily on these ancient organelles than any other animal.

«The characteristic malformations, together with the frequent virus detection in brains of malformed animals, clearly support a causal link,» FLI's Martin Beer says.

The new characteristics of Nitrospira were discovered in bacteria cultured from biofilters attached to fish tanks at the Animal Physiology research department, located a few floors below the Microbiology department at Radboud University.

With little knowledge of the roles that the Y chromosome genes play in fertility, most animal breeders and farmers select bulls based on physical characteristics, such as the size of the testis.

Using electron microscopes, for example, we can probe animal brains neuron - by - neuron, connection - by - connection, in the hope of discovering characteristic circuits that repeat themselves throughout the brain.

What they found: Many of these trypophobia triggers have spectral characteristics — luminosity and contrast features — that resemble those of poisonous animals, such as the deathstalker scorpion and the puffer fish.

Slow growing, with late maturity and few progeny, sharks are sensitive animals that do not have the biological characteristics to sustain this level of exploitation.

Looking at spectrograms of the calls, which provide visual representations of the sound, the research team could see the progression of vocal characteristics of the animals from calf throughout adulthood.

It's really important that we study them to get a better understanding of vulnerabilities, and what characteristics make certain animals more or less resilient,» she added.

In one -, four - and 10 - week - old animals, the donor cells not only took, but actually migrated to the right place, started assuming the characteristics of retinal cells and extended into the optic nerve, which links the eye to the brain.