Sentences with phrase «other human species»

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

Once we shared the planet with other human species, competing with them and interbreeding with them.

DNA analyses find that early Homo sapiens mated with other human species and hint that such interbreeding played a key role in the triumph of our kind

«Right now, the research group is analyzing the nuclear genome the results of which could provide us with information about its relationship with the Neanderthals and about the existence of genomic variations associated with the immune system that accounts for the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens over other human species with whom it co-existed.

This massive environmental change is believed to have created population bottlenecks in the various species that existed at the time; this in turn accelerated differentiation of the isolated human populations, eventually leading to the extinction of all the other human species except for the branch that became modern humans.

Of one thing at least we can be confident: The other human species are no more, and there are probably no galactic visitors here, either.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, many species have peacefully coevolved with humans for hundreds of thousands of years to play essential roles in digestion and in bolstering the immune system.

Dopamine is one of the most important chemicals in our brain, driving many of the behaviors that make humans more sophisticated than other species.

Reading Pierre Trudeau's remarks today, I'm struck by his foresight on issues like protection of fragile Arctic landscapes, and the capability of humans to push our species and others into extinction.

Fortunately for humans, we have evolved far enough to have a greater sense of self awareness than any other species.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

Brand New New fossils bringing «Hobbit humans» to life New bones attributed to Ho - mo floresiensis — aka the «Hobbit Human» — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members of this species looked like, how they behaved and their origins.

Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity of wild animals in zoos, and in pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction of members of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.

Yet by that same token, when we regard the smallest humans as inferior to other animals, we are being «species - ist» in reverse.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

The human body alone is to complex to be a random act of any set of molecules; and that's not counting the billions of other species of animals, plants, and insects.

You can mate and reproduce with other humans makes you a human species... Learn some science...

if its the human species... we are but a single branch of primates in the great ape family... Like gorillas and orangutans — we are the product of an evolutionary chain that included compet itors like Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal species.

About 10 % of the human population — and about the same percent of numerous other species, as well — are naturally attracted to those of their same gender.

An economics for community will be one in which human beings support themselves in a sustainable and enjoyable way while allowing much of the natural world to remain natural both for the sake of future generations and for the sake of the other species with which we should share the planet.

For a Whiteheadian it is more natural and correct to speak of the relation as between human beings and «other» animals; for humanity is one species of animals.

By locating the discussion of evil in the context of the entire cosmic complex, one may overlook the particular powerful role that human beings increasingly play in bringing evil to their own species and to other species as well.

This view accepts that humans share ancestry with all other forms of life, and that our species arose as a population, not through a single primal pair.

Humans are indeed unique — as is every other species on this planet.

When the image of God entered into the species which is humankind, that species was ordained to find its order on a plane other than the animal, and because of the presence of that divine image, dominance on the human plane is not a natural order but a disorder.

If the human community depicted in Genesis 1 is a utilitarian one, where man and woman join together, like the male and female of other animals, to further the ends of their species, the community of Genesis 2 emerges from a crisis of existential loneliness.

If so, how do we balance the rights and needs of human beings against those of other species.

At the same time, we would like to see not merely the preservation of existing wilderness, but changes in human habitat and land use that would allow us to share the land much more generously with other species.

We share the sense that human beings are immersed in the natural world and do constitute one species among others.

In a world shrunk by travel and communications technologies, one which can no longer afford conflict arising from ethnocentric prejudice, the appreciation of other religious and cultural views is necessary for the survival of the human species.

We will learn more, as we continue to observe other species across multiple human generations.

Millions upon millions of years old makes since when you have to explain how a fish, bird, dog, monkey, all other living species and humans are all so different now.

There are several different ethnicities of humans, and there is mountains of evidence of other species of humans that have died out.

«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.»

These and other unique properties of the human species must have been among the potentialities of the primordial life and the primordial cosmic substratum.

No other species can alter its habitat with the deliberation that the human species can.

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.

Most of us are politely quiet and secretly roll our eyes when someone says that god speaks to them or that they have been touched by god etc., yet when someone mentions any of the other things we are quick to point out that they are wackos... perhaps it is time for us to speak up and say there is no such thing as god and it is time to clear our heads and get on with moving the human species forward and leaving fairy tales and silly beliefs behind.

In other words, the Incarnation of Jesus has transformed the entire human species and all of nature; it is a completely finished work, and this transformed nature enables us to contemplate the divine through «indirect thought.»

this link amoung others shows parts that aren't used anymore in the human species.

She also specifies a genetic sense of the term, in which «any member of the species is a human being, and no member of any other species could be» (TM 53).

Humans are not «Ape v. 2.0» that render other species obsolete.

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

Besides, to treat a civilized society as purely the same as any other type of event in nature would be to downgrade the significance of one of those things Whitehead finds most peculiar to the human species, namely, civilization.

One would think humans would have moved forward by now but instead we as a species behave in the same self - destructive manner now as we did thousands of years ago with more at stake then at any other time in history.

All food for human consumption, and for many other species as well comes either directly or indirectly from four biological systems: croplands, grasslands, forests and fisheries.

There are differences between human beings and other creatures, just as there are differences among various species of other creatures.

There is, however, a great gulf separating humans from all other living species.

Is this kind of comparison with other species which are closest to mankind helpful for understanding human behaviour and commitments?

Our extravagant use of the earth's resources is now turning to wasteful exploitation, and our human activities are causing many other species to become extinct.