Sentences with phrase «survival as a species»

Religion is a by - product of our evolution throughout all cultures that is not beneficial to our survival as a species.

All cultures evolved with it, but that doesn't make it beneficial to our survival as a species, au contraire, it might be our undoing.

Food is not a sector like any other: it is fundamental to our health and well - being as individuals; to who we are as a culture; and ultimately to our very survival as a species.

This is what scholar John McMmurtry terms «the life - blind structure of the neoclassical paradigm»: the exclusion as a matter of definition of considerations such as human health and well - being, and eco-system integrity, that are actually fundamental to our continued survival as a species, let alone our civilisation in its current form.

Yet food is not a sector like any other: it is fundamental to our health and well - being as individuals; to who we are as a culture; and ultimately to our very survival as a species.

This more positive and social response could help explain the human connection that happens during times of crises, a connection that may be responsible, at least in part, for our collective survival as a species.

Most of the mutations they pass on are harmless and some may be beneficial, even essential to our long - term survival as a species, since a genetically varied population is the raw material of evolutionary change.

As Weir points out, it likely owes its survival as a species on being geographically isolated from its parental species at some point during a past ice age when rainforest coverage contracted, and wide rivers formed natural barriers.

Eventually, I believe humans will embrace a plant - based lifestyle on a large scale (frankly, our survival as a species depends on it).

Our survival as a species depended on our ability to live in harmony with the world.

In fact, our survival as a species depended on this aspect of brain development.

Their survival as a species over thousands of years depended on it.

Yet consumption for the sake of consumption is a practice we are going to have to leave behind if we want to ensure the health of our planet and guarantee our survival as a species.

«La Inocencia de los Animales» is a staging of our anxiety regarding our continued survival as a species.

Is this our only chance at survival as a species?

Even if it isn't man made, continued rising global temperatures will eventually trigger a runaway greenhouse effect that is catastrophic to our survival as a species and we need to do something to stop it or come up with alternatives for our survival.

«Two findings were most critical to FWS's listing determination: (1) extensive declines in Arctic sea ice extent already have occurred and are projected to continue; and (2) the polar bear depends on sea ice for its continued survival as a species.

Consider for a moment that on these two issues, one deals with our survival as individuals, the other our survival as a species.

The point is that we all trespass on the feelings of others; those feelings are critical to our connection with one another; our connection with one another is fundamental to our individual well - being and our survival as a species; the urge toward reconciliation is therefore natural, as are our desire to be forgiven, our spontaneous expressions of remorse, our attempt to explain and normalize our bad behavior (we are all fallible and we have all suffered harm) and our fellows» willingness to forgive, particularly when we bare ourselves and our histories to one another in the course of our effort to re-establish what joins us and to move beyond that which divides us.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy provides a practical, focused map to lead you out of these stuck places of disconnection into a secure, loving bond that modern science tells us is crucial to our survival as a species.

Love doesn't have to be a mystery anymore, and is the most powerful influence on our survival as a species.

Not exact matches

Also altruism has a distinct survival advantage for a species as a whole (a species that helps its own survive to reproduce is likely much more successful than an individualistic species that focuses only on a single «family» unit).

Our survival and prosperity as a species depends on our social skills and ability to work together.

Certain behaviours are universally detrimental to a species survival and as such should, at some level, be biologically «programmed» in to humans, and reflected in our socio - norms.

The basic instinct to procreate has always been essential for the survival of humankind, as it is for any species.

Thus, in spite of the centrality Western culture gives to «being intimate,» the Wynnes view intimacy as a supplementary, not an essential, process «for strengthening the bonding that has been crucial for the survival of the human species throughout the ages.»

If we had to choose between the survival of whales as a species and that of plankton, we would rightly choose the plankton.

At this point, hopefully, I've shown that injustice, while a vexation to be overcome as best we can, is a fundamental component needed for the survival of the species.

well, its really time that we as a species realize that we are not progressing... not ensuring the survival of a clean planet with a calm populace....

In the second place, evolutionary theory insists that an impersonal and ruthless process known as natural selection is the sole and sufficient explanation for the survival of some species and the extinction of others.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymoras a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

Things like education, scientific knowledge, and scientific examination of the way humans act and react are needed to forestall any future «nightmare» of «biblical» proportions as regards survival of the human species.

This doesn't mean that we're physically prepared for some cataclysmic event in terms of having a well - stocked fallout shelter, but rather that we enjoy the mental exercise of imagining the imminent peril and possible means of survival for humans as a species.

As a species we represent a triumph in survival against the odds, and we survived by way of wits and will, by way of cooperation and interdependence, man and woman, young and old.

Pheromones are widely recognized as a mediator promoting survival of each species.

Indeed, our survival as a nation and as a species is dependent on this reconnection.

Pheromones are widely recognized as a mediatorpromoting survival of each species.

In passing he points out that they cross breed and threaten their own survival as a separate species, and «avoiding controversy (as is my way), I will only mention that the mallard seems to have the highest rate of homosexuality of any bird.»

Such stretches of DNA point to genetic regions that are critical to a species» survival and development, as these regions are the product of «selective sweeps» in which all or most organisms in a geographic location come to depend on a certain genetic trait.

In their conclusion, the authors state that it is important for conservationists to see climate change not as one of numerous independent variables acting on species survival in mountain landscapes, but as an exacerbating force over the many direct human alterations to these areas.

The bottom line, as was true with whales and still is with bluefin tuna and other threatened fishes, is that ensuring shark species» survival also ensures the survival of multiple fisheries.

«Going forward, it will be an extremely important tool for identifying survival standards for Atlantic salmon at other dams in the Penobscot River watershed as we work to recover the species in Maine.»

«Apart from its clear reproductive function for the survival of the species, as well as physiological support for the quality and quantity of sleep that are essential to individual health and well - being, co-sleeping fulfils basic psychological needs and reinforces and maintains social relations,» highlights Smith.

But «the continued deterioration of the Yangtze ecosystem,» he says, «means that the species has no hope of even short - term survival as a viable population in the river if it has not already disappeared.»

But it is fair to say that as algae and other tiny ocean species solve new survival problems, they may force us to do the same.

«Prides, protection and parks: Africa's protected areas can support four times as many lions: Properly funded parks can conserve 83,000 lions, key to species» tenuous survival.»

But little has been done to ensure the animals» survival, despite its status as a European «priority» species — one that deserves the government's protection.

Sexual reproduction is usually touted as the best way to ensure a species» survival.

Mass deaths might not be all bad, because local die - offs could help to ensure the survival of the species as a whole