Sentence examples for human kin from inspiring English sources
No one knows just where they belong in the ever-expanding catalogue of human kin and near-kin, nor is there yet a workable hypothesis about their diminutive size.
So long as our individual survival depended on out-competing rivals for scarce necessities, we availed ourselves of excuses like these to suspend our intuition of the brotherhood of man and free ourselves to prey on our human kin.
A year after the earthquake, it's difficult to digest that nearly a million Nepalis are now in poverty and a million children are out of school, prone to and lured by senseless traffickers and profiteers willing to push their vulnerable human kin - women, girls, and boys - into prostitution and forced labor.
Jonah Lehrer highlights a fascinating subject in his piece on the genetic roots of altruism, but one would be wrong to suggest an equivalence between the impulse of animals and that of humans ("Kin and Kind," March 5th).
By providing a framework for how to treat non-human kin respectfully, people were discouraged from taking more than was needed from the natural world.
A significant aspect of the worldview of Northwest Coast peoples is the relationship between humans and non-human kin (e.g., Salmon People; see, e.g., Drucker 1951).
Although we are happy to allow naledi into the human family, we still disown our living kin.
Our kin should include the whole human family, but even when we feel alienated, we are not absolved of trying to become and live our most virtuous selves.
Ms. Doran does not sentimentalize the difficulty of the search for sustaining human bonds, but "Kin" contains as many moments of transcendent communion and progression as it does of emotional stasis or conflict.
Although chimps and humans are indeed closest kin, 15% of the human genome more closely matches the gorilla's.
Every time we have potentially reproductive sex we rejoice in genetic diversity - though humans (and our kin, the bonobos) have extended non-reproductive sex to many other contexts.
