Sentence examples for boundary between humans from inspiring English sources

It is argued that biotechnology enables human beings to transform animals according to human needs, which blurs the boundary between humans and non-human animals in moral and biological sense.

Leading scientists, including the government's former chief science adviser Sir David King, have given their backing to the research, but anti-abortion and religious groups launched a fervent campaign against the proposals, claiming that the research would undermine human dignity and blur the boundary between humans and other species.

Just where is the boundary between humans and machines, anyway?

Researchers have now shown that chimpanzees engage in similar self-distraction, a finding that further blurs the cognitive and behavioral boundary between humans and other primates.

After the nuclear accident, the threat that escaped radioactive pollutants would become part of the bodies of those exposed was an "unwanted intimacy" (80) that blurred the boundary between humans and their environment.

Nor do people's beliefs in its being taboo to blur sharp and significant conceptual boundaries explain their negative reaction, because the conceptual boundary between humans and non-humans is not sharp.

They simply replace a defensible, common-sense ethical boundary (between human beings and the rest of the animal world) with a dubious one (between the lucky banned species and the rest).

The spectacled figure of Ross pops up throughout, whether floating in front of 2001's spaceship to discuss the boundary between human and machine or clasping a syringe above a prostrate woman a la Pulp Fiction.

An analysis of what constitutes supernatural and human bodies will be conducted to better understand what forms a body in art, and where the boundary between human and inhuman lies within that genre.

Such organisms could blur the boundary between human and non-human organisms, if a significant number of human brain (nerve) or germ cells were to function appropriately in animal bodies.

However, the science/nature distinction is still being actively explored (Suchman 2008; Barad 2003, 2007; Hammond 2003; Goodman 2003) because it speaks to the boundary between human and machine and addresses the question of difference that has engaged feminist scholarship since its inception.