Sentences with phrase «simple human survival»

Another issue is that the characters on board the Essex are bereft of anything that would allow us to feel for them beyond simple human survival.

Wars have been fought because of motivations including imperial aggression, religious or political differences, and simple human survival.

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If 50,000 years ago the human race was motivated by simple survival, the emergence of more complex societies have bred a drive within human beings to, broadly speaking, seek reward and avoid punishment.

This cosmic radiation is a problem for human astronauts, but also for the survival of simple life — or even signs of its previous existence — in the martian ground.

«Yet, the survival of all animals — including humans — strongly depends on our ability to perform simple movements since the moment of birth, such as primitive reflexes essential for feeding.»

In simpler times, humans would live in tribal communities for safety as there was little chance of survival alone in the wild.

What did make this movie work was the sense of «being there,» of watching these characters go through what they think are grand plans for themselves (Wikus proud of getting promoted; Christopher thinking he's finally going to fix the mothership and escape) only for random chance, selfishness, and the raw immediacy of simple survival kick in and having them struggle from moment to moment against hostile forces (MNU, the human slumlords, there is no difference between those two groups exploiting the aliens).

The storyline was simple enough; another post-apocalyptic survival horror set at the end of civilization where the remaining humans are trying to survive in a harsh, bitter world.

In simpler language, humans are conducting a single experiment on systems of unimaginable complexity whose function we barely understand but upon which our survival is utterly dependent.