Sentences with phrase «survived as a species»

with out it we would not have survived as a species.

Humanity must outgrow the need for ancient fairy tales if we are to survive as a species.

The universe is governed by an amazing system of scientific laws, and humanity is driven by our animal instincts together with our higher mental and social functional areas that have allowed us to survive as a species.

The earth has provided certain basic conditions which must be met by all earthly creatures if they are to survive as a species.

Procreation is how we survive as a species.

If breastfeeding were as consuming and hard as it is during the first month for the entire year or more... then we never would have survived as a species.

We have survived as a species because of breastmilk.

Since I am now here writing this over 2,000 years after Jesus» birth, it worked pretty well as we have survived as a species.

It does not take an understanding of complex statistics to see that we would not have survived as a species if the simple, natural way or birthing and breastfeeding did not work most of the time.

A massive death rate in childbirth wouldn't prevent us from surviving as a species, either.

However, I do believe that if it required a 30 % cesarean rate to prevent adverse outcomes then we would never have survived as a species.

There's a 20 % miscarriage rate and that hasn't prevented us from surviving as a species.

That's probably the only reason that human beings survived as a species.

Babies could not have been born developmentally incomplete and left alone most of the day or separated from their mothers if we were to survive as a species.

Before we discover if we can survive as a species beyond Earth, we should probably take a few more walks out there.

«This «famine reaction», a survival mechanism which helped humans to survive as a species when food supply was inconsistent in millennia past, is now contributing to our growing waistlines when the food supply is readily available.»

If women couldn't gain weight during pregnancy, we wouldn't have been able to survive as a species.

Humans would not survive as a species.

Humans would never have survived as a species.

We would never have survived as a species had we not adapted to new foods!

Our ability to do this very quickly helps us to survive as a species.

The basic premise of the book is seductive: in order to evolve and survive as a species, while protecting the Earth, we have to reorganize and lead ourselves based on principles that respect caring, nurturing, compassion, connectivity, peaceful coexistence, harmonization, adaptability, and rebalance (science with wisdom, awe and wonder).

While humans are built to adapt and change (we wouldn't have survived as a species otherwise), the current technology disruptions and other associated changes are outpacing the capacity of individuals and organizations to evolve and adapt.

As animal advocates, we are responsible scientists who believe we have an obligation to help beluga whales survive as a species!

We in the US who consumer 20 % of the earth's resources are because we are so addicted to oil and many of us, like you, can not see that reliance on non-renewable sources of energy must be thrown on the ash heap of history if we are to survive as a species.

If they needed to get to southern Mexico to survive as a species, how did they survive before they had the genetic mutations to migrate?

We will survive as a species even if 6 billion people would die.

[G] iven the rapid pace of ecological change in the Arctic, the long generation time, and the highly specialised nature of polar bears, it is unlikely that polar bears will survive as a species if the sea ice disappears completely.

We survived as a species without bottled water until very recently, which shows there is nowhere on Earth that can not get by without it.

First, if the elkhorn coral is often naturally damaged during storms, as the team stated, then it is likely a species more adapted to take hold via transplanting, since this is something it would have had to do without human help in order to survive as a species.

But, if we want to survive as a species, this is what is required, according to Hansen.

Ken argues that «it is arguable that in the absence of improved conflict resolution skills it will prove difficult, if not impossible, for us to survive as a species.»

Our ability to emotionally bond with another is an integral part of who we are and played a huge role in ensuring we survived 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).

We may not survive the last as a human species.

Evolution is simply the observed changes in species over time as they adapt and improve to survive.

1) Evolution specifically prefers species that are well adapted to their environment, and typically over long periods of time the more well - adapted species will eradicate the others, as they can more easily eat / reproduce / survive (and there are ALWAYS finite resources).

Based upon you description of humanity, we should cease to exist as a species as I doubt the history is clean of any abhorrent act in any surviving family.

I would say that it is essential, as we are physically inferior to pretty much any major natural predator, so the only way we could have possibly survived and come this far is by being smarter than the other species.

It is not «wickedness» or «sin»... it is nature, and our evolved social skills, and need for social interaction as a species, while it has a side that is normally kept in reserve, is necessary for any species to survive.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

i disagree... our species will not survive as long as we hang on to these ridiculous bronze age beliefs....

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.

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.

A ship that held every type of species on earth even whales and fish... as they never would have survived the drop in salinity — or rise in salinity for fresh water fish... you try to build a 450 ft x 70ft ship at 500..

It seems that even if our ultimate goal is a world in which we will not have dominion, we must for the foreseeable future so exercise dominion as to preserve other species and some areas of wildness in which they can survive.

Either the different species, losing their powers of «speciation», survive as living fossils, which after all is a form of death; or else, and there are infinitely more of these, they simply vanish, one sort being replaced by another.

with each new change in any strain of virus or bacteria that is that organism adapting to its» enviroment, over time that whole species changes as the ones adapted survive and pass on their traits to the next generation.

This message is common these days - in church as well as «new age» literature - that we as a species (and more importantly as individuals) presently need to raise our spiritual connection to the Source of Life, individually and on a planetary level, if we wish to survive.

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.