Sentences with phrase «portion of their human families»

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In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

Near the bottom of this succession of rocks is Ardipithecus — not a chimpanzee, and not a human — but from the earliest portion of our branch of the hominid family tree.

«For a substantial portion of these children's lives, they've been living with a stepparent, who, in many cases, became a parent to them,» said Marilyn Coleman, a Curators» professor emerita in the Department of Human Development and Family Science.

Structured in two parts, the first portion of the story centers around the young ape boy's struggle to understand his differences from his family, while the second portion complicates that struggle with the introduction of an older Tarzan to a father - daughter team of human explorers and their ruthless protector, Clayton.