Sentences with phrase «views about human evolution»

For example, party and ideology are among several factors that influence public views about human evolution.

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For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

Differences in religious affiliation and worship service attendance are central to the public's views on a handful of science topics; foremost among these are beliefs about human evolution.

She is also the managing editor of This View of Life, a magazine about human evolution, and a teaching assistant in the chemistry department at Hunter College.

Vaclav Smil takes his usual clear - eyed view of the whole landscape, from meat's role in human evolution to hard questions about animal cruelty.