Sentences with phrase «species than human beings»

Not exact matches

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

Indeed, it is not even clear that we Christians know what the human species is or what status it may have since we have surer knowledge that we are creatures than that we are human.

Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»

Research comparing human and chimpanzee genomes, published in Nature, found that there are more than 40 million differences between the two species» base pairs, which are the DNA building blocks.

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.

Humans are the only known species on Earth predisposed to thinking there is something more to the universe than just what is immediately observable.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

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.

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

With regard to Callahan's comparison of the lives of PVS patients with the lives of «fertilized eggs,» I would simply note that once an egg has been fertilized it is no longer an egg but a new living being, and in the case of the human species, a new human being — surely a being of incomparably greater value than an «egg.»

I am a Christian, I refuse to say «a fellow Christian» because I bear no kinship to this pastor other than being a member of the same human species.

The human male is the strongest, smartest animal there is on the planet, he's definitely stronger and smarter than the female of the species... so if man is like a god on this planet, then that must mean that God must have made man in HIS image.

As more and more facts about our world were discovered (ie, the world is more than 6000 years old, humans were not the first species, there was no world - wide flood), science and religion have grown further and further apart.

The term implies that the dalits are a species lower than human.

Thus, it would appear that the reciprocal preservation of the biosphere as a whole (Objective D) is a more generic final cause than the preservation of the human species (Objective C).

If a human toddler is wiser than a planet of stone, but there are probably billions of planets inhabited by sentient beings, how can anyone assert that we are the «center of the universe,» or god's pet species?

Barring a few great thinkers / philosophers / astronomers who have walked the earth, 99.9999... % of the human race is no better than any other animal species.

More than 500 diverse species of bacteria reside in the human gut and probiotics are useful in replenishing the concentration of healthy bacteria that thrive (12).

Barbara Pickersgill notes that the fruit characteristics of the species are more variable around the mouth of the Amazon than further west because of human selection of the pods.

For example, for at least the first nine months that human babies is a quadruplet and that would suggest that maybe feeding on the baby is coming like some of our mammalian cousins do, would be more species specific than being held with close pressure applied on the babies back and head and neck as it's necessary when mothers sit upright.

They know that it's much better to give their babies human milk than that of another species.

10 There is no animal model of SIDS and it has never been observed to occur naturally in any species other than humans.2 While the standardization of a SIDS diagnosis has been and continues to be elusive and / or inconsistent, it is most often applied to situations in which an otherwise healthy infant between the ages of 8 - 16 weeks, especially, but up to 12 months, dies suddenly and unexpectedly presumably during its sleep and upon postmortem examination no apparent internal causal factor (s) explaining the death can be identified.11, 12

Through December Although we may look different, human beings are more genetically similar to one another than the members of any other living species are.

The characteristics of the home or the home occupants were more important for predicting occurrence than were climatic or regional factors, suggesting that home arthropod distributions can not reliably be predicted from outdoor arthropod predictions but may represent groups of species that are well adapted to human environments.

It is estimated that species extinction rates are a hundred to a thousand times greater now than in the past because of human actions.

Matthias Laska, a biologist at Linköping University in Sweden, has been comparing senses of smell across species — including humans — for more than two decades.

That's because in many animal species (including humans, according to some researchers) some males have more competitive sperm than others.

Homo floresiensis, the mysterious and diminutive species found in Indonesia in 2003, is tens of thousands of years older than originally thought — and may have been driven to extinction by modern humans.

This kind of prosocial behavior, a form of altruism that seeks to benefit others and promote cooperation, has now been found in chimps, the species that Darwin did more than any other human to connect us with.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Hobbit proponents, however, think that the evidence for the hobbit as a separate human species is stronger than ever.

Human beings are more disposed toward menopause than are other species.

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.

«Larger - bodied species often need larger territories and are fewer in number than smaller - bodied species,» he explained, so they would have been more susceptible to extinction as hunting, logging, farming and other human activities took their toll.

He found that the species» population has declined more than one / third over the last decade, and that just under half of the species» habitat has been irreversibly transformed by humans — primarily for crop production.

Although more than 250 different Aspergillus species are found in nature, and most contribute spores to the air we breathe, over 80 % of human disease is caused by one particular culprit called Aspergillus fumigatus.

Worldwide, over 13,000 plant species have been carried by humans to other regions, with more than 2,500 species being from Europe.

Thus, shorter calls — whether human or dog — were regarded as more emotionally positive than longer calls; and higher pitched samples were rated as more emotionally intense than lower pitched sounds for both species, the team reports online today in Biology Letters.

From the beginning there have been people who have suspected that rather than being a new species, this is actually a modern human that suffered from a disease known as microcephaly.

It is a far more remarkable achievement than merely canalizing energy flow through the human species, as by bringing wild lands under pasture, regardless of a declining rate of flow through the ecosystem as a whole.

The data shows that Americans are far less likely than the rest of the world to accept that humans evolved from earlier species and that the universe began with a big bang.

Weaving together data from the many journal articles and archaeological site reports, the team concluded that the timing of extinctions indicates humans may be involved in the extinction of more than 60 % of the nearly 150 native mammal species.

Spurred by human activity, the crisis is occurring faster and could extinguish more species than the gigantic asteroid strike that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

All in the wrist: Hobbit was more ape than human The wrist bones of the three - foot -(one - meter --RRB- tall humanoid specimen known affectionately as the Hobbit bolster the view that it was a species unto itself.

There was also a species effect, with dogs mouth - licking more often when looking at humans than at other dogs.

According to the report, cacti are under increasing pressure from human activity, with more than half of the world's 1,480 cactus species used by people.

Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more complex than that of humans.

Earth is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction: Somewhere between 30 and 159 species disappear every day, thanks largely to humans, and more than 300 types of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have vanished since 1500.