Sentences with phrase «on human survival»

The other threat is nuclear war which is becoming more likely as the technology spreads and as climate change imposes increasing problems on human survival.»

Clearly, Boyle's intent was not to investigate the outbreak, but to ponder on human survival.

The principal of adaptation is based on the human survival instinct.

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In building ProAmerica, Contreras - Sweet said that it was critical to the bank's survival that she build a strong human and physical infrastructure early on.

In an interview published on Business Insider, the billionaire emphasized space exploration as imperative for human survival.

I do not believe people would act that way as we have a long history of humans working together in social groups for survival relying on each other and taking care of sick and injured and protecting the weaker child bearing females in the group.

Our emotions are connected to the magnetic field, creatures are affected and connect to it and rely on it for survival, and animals can often sense human emotions based on this same connection.

Our brains no doubt work on the same patterns as other brains in nature, but the human quest for knowledge is not just bounded by the needs of survival.

You can not compare the evolutionary «moral» instincts of animals, which do what they do just to survive... to the human sense of innate morality, which is not necessarily based on survival.

Random variation and the survival of the fittest appeared to provide explanations of the emergence of new forms, including the human, on principles that removed the need for an intelligent creator and lawgiver.

The Church, and faith, do not depend for their survival on human efforts alone.

It could not then easily be foreseen that within two short decades human progress, in fact our very physical health or survival, would seem to depend more than ever on a return to laws set by the ever - living God.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Morality, love, ethics are all natural human characteristics which are based on survival of the species and evolve from societal needs.

The survival of the human race depends on it.

The lead essay begins with the statement: «The social sciences have largely ignored the fact that human societies depend on the biophysical environment for their survival.»

Right now at least 800 million people are in the throes of absolute poverty — poverty so severe that the basics of human survival are simply not available to them — according to the Independent Commission on International Development, chaired by former West German chancellor Willy Brandt.

Here we may pause to reflect on the fact that in human experience it is much easier to believe in human survival than it is in the finiteness of human existence.18 The almost universal belief in an «after - life» which developed from primitive man onwards was only to be expected.

Similarly, Charles Birch of Sydney spoke on «Creation, Technology and Human Survival» and told the Assembly that our goal must be a just and sustainable society; and this demands a fundamental change of heart and mind about humankind's relation to nature.

While I also tend to agree with your stance on the second, it seems to me much less clear - cut; hunting has been an integral part of human survival over the last 100,000 + years and continues to be important today for many traditional societies.

There has been no revelation from on high: the moral requirements of Christianity are not divine commands, but human constructs generated from epigenetic rules for the purpose of securing survival and reproduction.

We do not assume deep in our hearts that from now on «the unit of survival is the human race.»

We can only hope that among the ruling circles of Russia, China, Brazil, Egypt, and elsewhere there is enough appreciation for the biological and ecological facts of life on earth during the coming decades to enable them to get a vision of what human survival will require.

Has humanity been fooled so much by Death and Death's constructs that they have forgotten their first evolutionary rule of survival that has been passed on up through the centuries of human existance?

Hunger and thirst, and desert journeying, and the survival teamwork of mountaineers on a rope» these are the truth of our human condition.»

In biblical eschatology, the personal survival of the individual does not depend on any generic metaphysical traits of human souls themselves, but rather on the cosmic change of state that ushers in the new age.

Oh please, the Biblical condemnation of homosexuality is based on human ignorance, suspicion of those who are different, and an overwhelming concern for ensuring the survival of the people.

Our hope for survival and prosperity depends on how well these vast systems and forces can work in harmony to achieve worthwhile human goals.

Yet some either deny a concept of God based on a human like diety... without logically understanding it has to be something more than that... or worse only see a chaotic uncaring universe..., without understanding the complexity of the infinite miracles, defined by science alone, not to mention the influence of noy yet known to science, occurences... that have occurred for billions of years to end up in their creation and also supporting their every day survival.

Today we are struggling for the survival not only of human civilization, but for survival of life on the planet Earth.

Hanging our hopes for human reconciliation on such impermanent, spontaneous episodes of grace is to suspend a great deal, perhaps even the survival of life on earth, by a slender thread.

I find it far more convincing than attempts to pin survival value on every single human characteristic.

Some words of wisdom grace the walls with none other than Albert Einstein's famous quote,» Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.»

And just when you're ready to pat yourself on the back for a good job done, you realize that you're slogging away, trying to squeeze every last drop of milk as though the survival of the entire human race, nay the entire universe depends on it.

I believe that fear and hatred will always be a part of each of us as the baser instincts of the human animal are naturally bent on our own survival and self - interest.

It is thought, however, that levels of these fatty acids at levels greater than those found in human breast milk may have adverse effects on growth, survival, and neurodevelopment in other animals.

Attachment theory is a theory about relationships, based on the idea that human beings evolved in kinship groups and that human survival was enhanced by the maintenance of secure bonds between parents and children and with members of the wider group [i](Holmes, 1993).

Eating is an essential survival mechanism, it only makes sense that a human child will instinctively begin eating when she is developmentally ready to do so, just as she will begin to sit up, walk, and communicate, all on her own with no specialized instruction or coercion from her parents.

Insure modest gains for the next generation, having great faith in your eventual resurrection rather than selfishly gambling everything on yourself and risking the survival of the human race which is supposed to play a role in your eventual resurrection.

But the plants» molecular assembly lines have evolved to optimize the plants» survival, not to churn out buckets of one substance we humans want to get our hands on,» she said.

In their conclusion, the authors state that it is important for conservationists to see climate change not as one of numerous independent variables acting on species survival in mountain landscapes, but as an exacerbating force over the many direct human alterations to these areas.

«Human societies are hugely complex, and factors such as culture and access to healthcare make it hard to study the impact of a single factor like social relationships on survival.»

Plants will play a critical role in the survival of human beings on long - duration space missions, such as a mission to Mars.

There also is evidence of a «grandmother effect» on the survival of younger members of the few remaining human hunter - gatherer societies.

Human beings are utterly dependent on a complex social structure for their survival.

Scientists working on crops in silico anticipate the growing potential of this young field, and what they will learn about foods essential to human survival.

«I know of no other technology except computer science that can be as influential in the survival of human life on this planet than that of mushroom mycelium,» says Stamets, who has been awarded six patents for mushroom - based inventions.

Because humans depend on one another for survival, we must communicate; facial expressions may have evolved as efficient ways to telegraph feelings and intentions.

Around the same time, another psychiatrist, John Bowlby, penned his now - canon observations about the central importance of attachment for the social and psychological development of young humans, reminding us that we are just another part of a chain of mammals that depend on the care of others for survival.

These pioneers sometimes had to abandon science to focus on survival, but at a time when humans couldn't get more than a few feet off the ground, the data they obtained accurately reckoned the distance to the sun at 93 million miles.