Sentences with phrase «only human species»

«Only the human species has a distinctive mushroom - capped glans, which is connected to the shaft by a thin tissue of frenulum,» writes Bering.

Although modern humans are the only human species alive today, other human species once walked the Earth.

Not exact matches

Species commonly found in humans: Clostridium perfringens (potential pathogen), Clostridium difficile (potential pathogen), Clostridium tetani (potential pathogen; is only transiently associated with humans, does not colonize the intestines).

But a new movement today, calling itself transhumanism, carries these notions to their logical conclusion: human beings are not only manipulable objects, but raw, manipulable material; man himself, his very form, might be tinkered with, enhanced, and «reengineered,» like a species of crop or livestock.

Or is the human species the only one in the cosmos that has rights, the only creature that has intrinsic worth, goodness and integrity in the eyes of God?

If, to the contrary, the difference between humans and some sub-humans were slight (if, for instance, humans were only slightly superior to nonhuman primates, so that human existence were a species belonging to what we now call the nonhuman animal world), it would not be clear that the appearance of humans represents the maximal importance of subhuman existence as such.

But presuming — as I do — the validity of the concept of geologic time, I note that the designation «Anthropocene» unavoidably suggests an exceptional quality to the species homo sapiens, if only in terms of our collective human powers.

If a species of whales becomes extinct while whalers become prosperous, the potential loss to human happiness is great, and only if greater human possibilities are created is the deed justified.

We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

You said — «God accepts human nature is because we are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices.»

In fact, according to the Bible, the reason that God accepts human nature is because we are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices.

Humans are the only known species on Earth predisposed to thinking there is something more to the universe than just what is immediately observable.

Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»

The prospects for conscious control of human biological evolution posed by recombinant DNA research raise directly and sharply certain questions about the future not only of our own culture but also of the human species itself.

«There would, however, be a method by which, if the orangutan and others were of the human species, the crudest observers could assure themselves of it even by demonstration; but since a single generation would not suffice for this experiment, it must be considered impracticable, because it would be necessary for what is only an hypothesis to be already proved true before the experiment that was to prove it true could be tried innocently.»

Most sociologists believe that evolutionary biology is crucial for understanding the many social insti.tutions of the human species, of which religion is only one.

Sent forth from the natural domain of species into the hazard of the solitary category, surrounded by the air of a chaos which came into being with him, secretly and bashfully he watches for a Yes which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

Rad - con doctrine concedes the reality of a human species but only as it can be located in individuated clusters of genetic material — blobs of vulnerable stuff that is ever changing and passing away.

A legitimate philosophical anthropology must know that there is not merely a human species but also peoples, not merely a human soul but also types and characters, not merely a human life but also stages in life; only from the... recognition of the dynamic that exerts power within every particular reality and between them, and from the constantly new proof of the one in the many, can it come to see the wholeness of man.

Paul Knitter in his One Earth, Many Religions emphasizes the priority of «the dialogue of action» in response «to the widespread human and ecological suffering and injustice that are threatening our species and our planet» but he recognizes that «unless the voices of the mystic and the scholar are also heard, the conversation will lose its religious content or it will be turned into a tool for purposes that can only discredit all the participants.»

And human beings are the only species capable of self - determination; we do not function solely out of instinct.

As reason sets human beings apart from all other animals, it seems that our rational nature can not be explained by evolution alone, for we do not find stages of lesser reflective selfconsciousness before the human species but evolution requires only gradual changes at a time.

In the case of the human species, we have evolved not only in a symbiotic relationship with the physical environment of the earth but with another kind of environment, known as human culture.

Many biologists, and not the least eminent among them (all being convinced that Man, like everything else, emerged by evolutionary means, i.e. was born in Nature) undoubtedly still believe that the human species, having attained the level of Homo sapiens, has reached an upper organic limit beyond which it can not develop, so that anthropogenesis is only of retrospective interest.

The challenges which lie ahead can not be overcome by any one person or group working on their own but only by the human species working as a whole.

Divergence can be seen not only in the multiplication of species over a long period of time, but also in the multiplication and diversification of languages, cultures and nations within the human species.

Second, we know that family life is essential to human sexuality because reproduction is complete when there exists another adult instance of the species, and in human beings this only results after a long period of dependency, socialization, and education which takes place within a family.

Also, to say that similarity to human beings is the only basis of valuing other species is an exaggeration.

They «can properly imply that in some respects man is only a «plain citizen» (Aldo Leopold) of the planet on a par with all other species, but they are sometimes interpreted as denying that humans have any «extraordinary» traits, or that, in situations involving vital interests, humans have no overriding obligations towards their own kind.

That the universe thought it a grand idea not only to create the human species, but to seperate it into male and female and to have them be able to reproduce only with each other.

And to not only create the human species but to place us on a planet that revolves perfectly around a burning sun to give us seasons in which to grow food and harvest it to feed ourselves.

Neanderthals and hobbits aren't the only species that may have coexisted with modern humans.

By this logic they can say that if only one or two of us are killed it will present no threat to the human species, so why not?

We, as a species... we humanity learned most of what we learned throughout human history only AFTER refusing to accept the old - time explanation «because [insert name of local deity or other spirit, etc.] decreed it should be so.»

Sent forth from the natural domain of species into the hazard of the solitary category, surrounded by the air of chaos which came into being with him, secretly and bashfully, he watches for a Yes which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

Anyone making a thorough scientific study of religious and philosophical thought through out the world, including not only a culturally self centered conceited study of Judeo - Christain - Islamic Western forms alone... would find a much more rich variety of understanding, meeting the needs of the many levels of developed conciousness in the human species.

For them, possibilities not only of advance but also of decline, even of the destruction of the human species, lay before us.

Our hope lies in the resilience of life, which is Christ, the emergence of new understanding, which is possible only as Christ brings it to pass, in the extension of love to all human beings and to other species, which is Christ within us.

Moreover, since it can be applied to divine and angelic individuals as well as human, it defines the human being not only as he is knowable in his relation to the rest of created reality — as one biological species among others, i.e. as a rational animal — but also as he is knowable in his relation to other personal beings, angelic and divine.

This not only represents a huge impact on what is available for humans, but it is a disproportionate share for only one of 30 million or so species of animals!

It is human because it can be distinguished from other non-human species, and once implanted in the uterine wall it requires only nutrition and time to develop into one of us.

The human species, the only one with a spiritual soul, is, as fulfilled by the Incarnation, the purpose of creation in our theology, The breakdown of the individual physical thing is part of the dynamic of evolution across time as it aims at its goal.

Then in 1871, in his The Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human beings, far from being made «in the image of God» (Gen. 1:27), were only a highly developed species of anthropoid apes.

The ability to make this conversion varies widely not only between species but even between strains of laboratory rats, and has not been determined in humans.

Humans are the only species on the planet that drink another animals breast milk.

Only 120 cultivated plant species and 14 mammalian and avian species provide 90 percent of human food supply.

Humans are the only mammal to feed their young the milk of another species.

Humans are not the only species that assists laboring females.

My first studies aimed to demonstrate that only by deriving infant sleep measurements in the mother infant cosleeping - breastfeeding context could we begin to understand more accurately what constitutes human - wide, species - wide, normal, healthy infant sleep.

Humans are but one species of mammals, but are the only species with any significant decay in deciduous teeth.