Sentences with phrase «which human survival»

In order to protect our planet's climate system and vital natural resources on which human survival and welfare depend, and to ensure that young people's and future generations» fundamental and inalienable human rights are protected, government climate pollution policies must be based on the best available climate science.

I wish you could demonstrate, in a powerful way, how a world in which the leatherback turtle has become extinct is a world in which entire food - chains collapse; a world in which human survival, even of the rich and powerful, is far from trivial; a world that has been robbed and plundered of such fundamental resources as clean air, clean water and viable ecosystems, that it can no longer maintain the top predators — humans.

But in stressful times, during which human survival is less guaranteed, men would be more willing to risk a physically dissimilar partner in order to father as many children as possible.

Not exact matches

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

You can not compare the evolutionary «moral» instincts of animals, which do what they do just to survive... to the human sense of innate morality, which is not necessarily based on survival.

Unfortunately, the very development of human compassion which serves to mark the Europeans as more civilized also works against the principle of survival of the fittest.

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Instead, the means of survival must be transmuted into another form, into a lifestyle which the anthropologist Paul Radin has shown to be a perennial type in human cultures: that of the skeptic.

Humans have developed powerful brains which they use to threaten their own survival, to desire meaning where there is none, to speak of destiny when we can't define an ultimate good.

She doesn't have the least interest in our god - given human hunger for meaning and transcendent values all Mother Nature cares about is the survival of the species which requires getting the DNA from one generation to the next and providing for the young until they are self - sufficient enough to sustain their own lives and we are the venue.

In a world shrunk by travel and communications technologies, one which can no longer afford conflict arising from ethnocentric prejudice, the appreciation of other religious and cultural views is necessary for the survival of the human species.

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

Morality, love, ethics are all natural human characteristics which are based on survival of the species and evolve from societal needs.

Here we may pause to reflect on the fact that in human experience it is much easier to believe in human survival than it is in the finiteness of human existence.18 The almost universal belief in an «after - life» which developed from primitive man onwards was only to be expected.

The ethical principles which hitherto we have regarded as an appendage, superimposed more or less by our own free will upon the laws of biology, are now showing themselves — not metaphorically but literally — to be a condition of survival for the human race.

The need for pure air, clean water, healthy food, adequate shelter, the regeneration of the species and the overcoming of all threats to human survival — these have once again become the central issues to which we must «devote» ourselves.

That number one evolutionary rule of survival is «When Death is at your doorstep and has chained you to the walls without seeing the light of Creation or that which can be created then the human must fight against Death and invent new ways of defeating Death and his minions.»

But this part of Whitehead's cosmology, which seems relatively straightforward, has unleashed a firestorm of controversy in the technical literature, centering around that most delicate and personal of all issues for us humans, our own personal survival.

The togetherness - fusion force, which is deeply rooted in the biological survival needs of human beings, is the cohesive force that makes for the bonding of family systems (and other close relationships).

There is a psychological sense of purpose in individual human mind, which likely evolved by natural selection as a property of the human brain which gives advantage to the survival of the human race.

We will also realize that this entails the construction of a society in which the natural necessities of life are provided for all as easily and freely as possible so that the needs of survival will not dominate human activity.41

Once one accepts the enrichment beyond the merely material of the context within which human life is lived, one is no longer restricted to the notion of Darwinian survival necessity as providing the sole engine driving hominid development.

Too often we look at historical societies (especially hunter - gatherer ones which comprise the majority of human history) and dismiss them because of the threats to their survival.

In contrast the mammals pictured all gestate to a point where their offspring are far less vulnerable and far more capable of survival... roughly akin to circa 9 - 18 mths of human infant development (which, even then, is a wide range itself).

Like human taste buds which reward us for eating what's overwhelmingly critical for survival i.e. fats and sugars, a consideration of human infant and parental biology and psychology reveal the existence of powerful physiological and social factors that promote maternal motivations to cosleep and explain parental needs to touch and sleep close to baby.

And in normal human development, these right - brain features are able to control our brain's survival systems, which include stress response.

non-specific - like lactoferrin, lysozyme and bifidus factors which either make human milk a poor medium for bacterial survival or make the intestine unsuitable for the growth of pathogenic agents.

Neuroscientific insights point to three key characteristics of human nature: emotionality (we are far more emotional than we think we are, and emotionality play a central role in decision - making), amorality (we are born amoral and our moral compass is developed in the course of our existence), and egoism (we are driven to survival, which is a basic form of egoism, i.e. preservation of the self).

Insure modest gains for the next generation, having great faith in your eventual resurrection rather than selfishly gambling everything on yourself and risking the survival of the human race which is supposed to play a role in your eventual resurrection.

If you follow the evolution of human society per the theory of the early philosophers: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau; it is posited that when humans decided to move from a state of survival of the fittest in which they roamed in the bush mainly in small family groups and decided to settle in larger societal groups, they needed rules and regulations to order society.

By assessing the survival of the cells that engulf the particles and measuring the levels of red or green light that they emitted, the researchers determined which formulation of particles performed best, then tested that formulation in mice with human brain cancer derived from their patients.

This knowledge could play an important role in the design of future vaccination campaigns, but also highlights a deeper evolutionary logic which modern humans sometimes are governed by: as social beings, in the right circumstances, we can afford to take into account a broader societal context, but when we get the chance to invest in the evolutionary «core values» (survival and procreation) the larger context is easily forgotten.

When his team looked at gene expression changes in the mice, then applied them to humans with early stage cancer, the results revealed a breakdown of which patients have a high or low chance of survival.

«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.

«Although autonomy - establishing behavior is clearly of value in modern Western society, in which daily survival threats are minimal, it may have become linked to stress reactions over the course of human evolution, when separation from the larger human pack was likely to bring grave danger,» Allen and colleagues write.

In a new report published in the January 2015 issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists use mice to show that a human membrane - bound enzyme called CD39, which can clear the dangerous buildup of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from the bloodstream, significantly improves survival of mice in sepsis.

«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.»

In April 2000 Joy published a bombshell article in Wired entitled «Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,» which described how the author had come to the realization that advances in genetics, nanotechnology and robotics will eventually pose grave threats to human survival.

For example, while Joy focuses on direct threats to human survival (such as bioterrorism), Kass, who is chairman of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, is more concerned about subtle ways in which our quest for technological mastery could undermine the foundations of human dignity.

For species such as the jaguar, which rarely crosses into territory disturbed by humans, survival may hinge on the creation of habitat corridors linking isolated population pockets.

The study's creators say they hope it will serve as a master plan to guide research and conservation work that will ensure the long - term survival of these waterways, which have suffered from intensive human development.

Brucella, which causes the sometimes fatal disease brucellosis in humans and farm animals, seems to depend on blue wavelengths of light — like those found in the sun's rays — for its survival.

The human genome contains around 20,000 genes, by refining CRISPR - Cas9 technology and using it to screen the leukemia genome the team uncovered a catalogue of approximately 500 genes that are essential for cancer cell survival, including more than 200 genes for which drugs could be designed.

This diet provided large quantities of fat and meat, which supplied the calories necessary for human survival.

«We increased median survival time in animals by 40 %, which gives us enough evidence to go on to human clinical trials,» Belcher says.

The results may indicate which genes are important for survival in the Huntington's and Parkinson's disease processes in humans.

«Our results show that, in an era in which high - resolution molecular typing for class I and class II HLA [human leukocyte antigen] loci has significantly improved the clinical outcome of unrelated donor HSCT by decreasing the risk of immunological complications, lowering the ATLG dose to 15 mg / kg did not affect the time to engraftment and, more importantly, the incidence of acute or chronic GVHD [graft - vs - host disease], and was associated with an improved probability of event - free survival, mainly due to a reduced risk of nonrelapse mortality,» wrote Franco Locatelli, MD, of the department of oncoematologia pediatrica, IRCCS Ospedale «Bambino Gesù» in Rome, and colleagues.

Persistent survival of the transplant was not required in order to obtain benefit after transplantation, as behavioral recovery was as extensive in animals in which transplanted cells were still present at 5 weeks as in those in which no human cells were detected at this time point.

This also demonstrates a conservation of outcomes between human cells and rat cells, which also did not require prolonged survival to provide durable benefit [14], [57], suggesting that this too might be a conserved aspect of GDABMP function.

In mice, which are mammals like humans, MSI - 1436 improved heart function, increased survival, reduced scarring and stimulated the proliferation of heart muscle cells.