Each cultural loss therefore diminishes understanding of the world and therefore adaptive capacity, it suggests.
It was shame that redacted Motley Flint from the annals of Hollywood's history and Frank Keaton from the branches of my family tree, and the memories of both men continued to fade through a diminishing understanding of the past.
And they show that this sense of wonder about the natural world is not diminished by understanding how things work.
Thanks to a host of incremental and profound changes in the ways we live our lives and the communications tools that enable us, we have diminished our understanding of the consequences of our behavior on the lives of the people we encounter.
The above may have diminished our understanding of the pathobiological basis of the cough reduction seen.
Does a focus entirely on reducing deaths diminish our understanding and empathy with the profound despair and pain felt by suicidal persons – whether or not they actually attempt suicide or die?
But Teresa Berger, a theology professor at Yale Divinity School whom the Vatican barred from teaching in Catholic universities in the early 1990s because of her feminist theological writings, said the church's attitude toward women was diminishing its understanding of God.
It devalues the significance of the behavior, especially in a criminal sense, diminishes the understanding of victimization, and ultimately the inherent danger.
This overestimation of the role of the state-owned health care system, which was highly centralized, free, and accessible to all citizens, diminishes the understanding of individual responsibility for personal health and lifestyle.
We hypothesize that this general design principle only works if the applied color schemes match cultural preferences while mismatches can even diminish the level of understanding.
