Sentences with phrase «other human traits»

In part because of the longstanding controversies over same - sex relationships, the genetics of sexual orientation has been somewhat neglected compared to other human traits.

The evolution of our oddly bare bodies has been crucial in the development of other human traits.

Not exact matches

«How a human sorts the many traits, roles, and other identity markers that make up him - or herself,» explains Neilson.

Empathic people trust that kindness will get them further in life than other human character trait.

Once you master that understanding — that true leadership at its best is about serving the needs of others on a human level — there are certain innate traits you'll find in the best of them.

The cause is human jealousy, greed, selfishness, pride, intolerance, arrogance, and many other human character traits that lead to humans being unkind to other humans.

(CNN)-- Being nice to others and cooperating with them aren't uniquely human traits.

The porous self stems from the social imaginary of an enchanted world; its primary trait is an openness toward the world as a causal matrix filled with other humans, spirits, demons, and cosmic forces that produce meaning.

A great number of these mechanisms have been preserved evolutionarily in humans, just as they are for every other behavioral trait we know (including heterosexuality).

Most humans still suffer from an unevolved «tribal» trait of wanting to belong to a certain group, while desperately looking for reasons to hate the other in order to stand out amongst the other groups.

Since in other places, however, he makes a strong case for human equality, which is not a function of particular traits or virtues, perhaps I am reading incorrectly what he means by «democratizing.»

On the other hand, it doesn't take philosophy to know that God is more than a projection of human traits, writ large.

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.

Humans selected for speed, resulting in the Greyhound, smelling and tracking ability (Bloodhounds) ability to herd sheep (Collies and Australian Shepherds) appearance (Dalmatians and Pomeranians) size (Chihuahuas and Great Danes) and a host of other traits.

holding to a beleif in God as you undertand that God to be is an inspiring human trait... organized releigion on the other hand is the bane of humanity

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.

Human evolution may have involved the gradual assembly of scattered skeletal traits, fossils of Homo naledi and other species show.

[Associated image: Agustín Fuentes, a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, said that creativity is the trait that distinguishes humans from other species.

Some researchers think stone tools can answer the big questions in human evolution: How do we differ from other primates and when did our unique human traits emerge?

An apparently new Variant of human serum albumin, albumin Naskapi, has been found in high frequency in the Naskapi Indians of Quebec and, in lower frequency, in other North American Indians.The family and population data of the albumin are consistent with its inheritance as a simple autosomal trait Controlled by a gene designated Al Naskapi.

Bipedalism, one of the basic markers of humans, apparently developed long before other traits, such as stone - tool making.

The IWAH did correlate with all these traits, but showed itself to be a distinct construct which manifested in a greater commitment to universal human rights, willingness to aid others, and greater acquired knowledge of international aid issues.

Ostrander says that by identifying other dog genes for body size and for traits such as leg length and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth and its disorders — especially cancer — in humans and their best friends.

The challenge facing roboticists is to take general - purpose computers and program them to match the largely special - purpose human brain, with its ultraoptimized perceptual inheritance and other peculiar evolutionary traits.

But pretty soon he is detailing its failings: we are overconfident in our mind - reading abilities; we use our own mind as a template for others, yet confabulate wildly to make sense of ourselves; by stereotyping people we overemphasise differences; we are woefully poor at reading body language; and we constantly misapply our mind - reading talents, dehumanising others while imbuing inanimate objects with human traits.

Glutamate receptors are known to be involved in a variety of cognitive traits in humans and other mammals.

Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis has spent the last 25 years studying the molecular mechanisms underlying the capacity for spoken language, one of the crucial traits that differentiates humans from other animals.

If so, it would mean that, rather than being an 18,000 - year - old representative of a new species, the hobbit was just a modern human with a growth disorder that left it with a brain the size of a grapefruit, among other odd traits, which is what critics have argued all along.

Lucy and other members of Australopithecus had the full human range of motion, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, even though they still had traits that helped them climb trees (albeit less powerfully than other living apes).

Biologists have long debated the specific traits that set humans apart from other animals: Is it self - awareness, or morality, or emotions?

In humans and mice, the gene is associated with height, face development and other traits.

The traits of human - like intelligence have evolved in other species — the octopus and some birds, for example, both exhibit social playfulness — and this, the book suggests, indicates that intelligence is an inevitable consequence of evolution that would characterise extraterrestrials as well.

There could be other explanations for these shared traits, but, he adds, early in human evolution, «It's possible there was gene flow between all three species.»

Zimmer: And yet, as central as consciousness is to our sense of being human, we mostly experience it in the context of our other quintessential trait, sociability.

Bipedalism is a quintessentially human trait that distinguishes us from other primates.

Lander argued that we know far too little about the human genome's role in cognition and other traits to try to mess with it.

Lead author Dr Bonaventura Majolo, a behavioural ecologist based in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln, said: «Parochialism — or being «prosocial» towards a member of your own group while being aggressive towards other groups — is an interesting trait from an evolutionary perspective because it lies at the heart of racism and out - group discrimination in humans.

Interpretation, on the other hand, involves the specifically human traits of taste and aesthetic judgement.

Once the human and chimp genomes were deciphered about a decade ago, they realized they could now begin to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of our big brain, bipedalism, varied diet, and other traits that have made our species so successful.

This approach also has limitations as it impedes comparisons with findings in other studies and other species, which is essential if you want to use research on chimpanzees to better understand the evolution of human personality traits.»

It's a fundamental human tendency to focus on other people's stable traits and personality when trying to explain their behavior and preferences, but to focus more on situational factors when making sense of one's own behavior and preferences.

Also, the pigmentation of axolotls varies greatly from one cell to the next, unlike in humans or other animals, in which cell traits tend to be uniform.

Bronte, like so many other 19th century intellectuals, was fascinated by phrenology, which explained human personality traits by charting the bumps on the skull.

The skull shows a new mix of features not seen before in fossil humans — it has traits that link it to Neandertals, such as a fused brow ridge, as well as some primitive traits that resemble other extinct fossils in Europe.

Gina Rippon gives a fascinating perspective on gender differences in behavioural traits, with insights from studies in both humans and other species (2 September, p 24).

«Such a mosaic anatomical evolution may well be related to the somewhat similar molecular mosaic evolution between the three species revealed by previous genetic studies: each of the chimpanzees species share about 3 percent of genetic traits with humans that are not present in the other chimpanzee species.»

Other sexually selected traits include: lion's manes, great tit's or budgie's plumage, grouse mating rituals, insect love tokens, the height of human males and human hair, intelligence and facial features.

But others hold that the main trait selected for was friendliness — seeking human company and not biting — and that the cleverness of dogs was an unintended byproduct.

The second sees religion itself as adaptive, arguing that its role in social cohesiveness and other traits may have helped humans survive.

Hardy pointed out that only aquatic mammals like walruses and hippopotamuses have naked skin and subcutaneous fat — human traits not shared by other apes.