Sentences with phrase «other human transformations»

Currently, Guyana protects 8 percent of its rainforests from development — farming, the creation of towns or other human transformations.

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In other words, the transformation of human affections impacts bodily states, causing a change in countenance.
The remainder of this chapter will be concerned with three other kinds of human relations — economic, political, and familial — and with what the sciences centrally concerned with them tell about human nature and its transformations.
A culture, even one of long duration, is modifiable by human effort under the impact of a new ideology — witness the radical transformation of China under Communist influence or the other revolutionary changes now taking place in the Orient from an emergent nationalism.
I believe that God works through creatures, especially human ones, that that work is transformative, that we can not know in advance just where such transformation will lead, but that we can distinguish God's transforming work when it occurs from other kinds of changes.
Jenkins, on the other hand, describes appreciatively theological schools, from the Orthodox doctrine of theosis to Teilhard de Chardin to the modern «creation spirituality» movement, which one way or another allow humans to share with God in the evolution of the world to a glorious transformation ¯ although, as Jenkins points out, there's a danger that that could veer off into anthropocentric management.
In the animals we domesticated through genetic transformation, «Wild, human - threatening, and human - fearfulness instincts are eliminated and replaced by tameness, an acceptance or desire to be near humans, and often, other specific human - serving personalities.»
Relationships between associate and senior pastors are neither more nor less complicated than other human relationships: they hold the potential or abuse as well as for transformation.
It is the journey of primordial matter through its marvelous sequence of transformations — in the stars, in the earth, in living beings, in human consciousness — toward an ever more complete spiritual - physical intercommunion of the parts with each other, with the whole, and with that numinous presence that has been manifested throughout this entire cosmic - earth - human process.
Human beings are tied together by a certain sensory fabric, a certain distribution of the sensible, which defines their way of being together; and politics is about the transformation of the sensory fabric of «being together»,» (The Emancipated Spectator, p. 56) and Kratsman's photographs do just that; they allow us as spectators to look into the experience of being «the other», until perhaps we feel they are not «other» at all.
Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.
Some of the study's subjects viewed photos of the transformation of the monkeys» faces as a human or primate would see them while others saw pictures as a color - blind person would and others as a camera would.
Successful system for full feminization or transformation and hypnotherapy for transgenders and transsexuals with over 30 years experience Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a
He told the story of how awful humans are to other humans (I mean prawns), and journeyed through the eyes of a blithering idiot who started out steamrolling over the aliens for the Man, then had a change of heart, completing the transformation by literally turning into one of them.
Slower transformation and recovery of relational as well as other aspects of social life is evident in communities with bigger loss of human lives — the places deeply traumatized with horrible experiences of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
On the one hand we have decoded human DNA, bringing within reach the possibility to prolong life indefinitely; on the other hand we have seen the transformation of industrial countries into leisure societies and the simultaneous exploitation of the Third World as a depot of cheap labor and manpower, where time is still a negotiable commodity.
With other elements, this transformation of the human figure creates new conversati...
At a time of accelerating transformations in global ecosystems, humans and other animals leave and lose their natural habitat.
«Precarious Inhabitants» is a series of works addressing issues of symbiosis and transformation between human, AI machines, animals and other organic and synthetic bodies.
Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.
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