Sentence examples for human uniqueness from inspiring English sources

THE problem with understanding human uniqueness is precisely that it is unique.

Human uniqueness is a myth inherited from religion, which humanists have recycled into science".

Clearly I don't contest data that show that humans are unique in many ways, and I certainly favour studying the similarities and differences across species, but think it is time to retire the notion that human uniqueness is a pinnacle of some sort, denied in any shape, way, or form to other creatures.

In the 1980s, however, "the fortress of human uniqueness came under attack" with the findings of Jane Goodall and others who worked with primates, and Dr. Pepperberg proposed to "replicate the linguistic and cognitive skills that had been previously achieved with chimps in a gray parrot, an animal with a brain the size of a shelled walnut, but one that could talk".

The Human Genome Project undermines cherished ideas about human uniqueness.

"Understanding the forces that drove that transition can help us better understand the causes of human uniqueness," Gavrilets adds.

In this view, humans' uniqueness stems from their capacity to build up and share huge informational megastructures, those of language and culture, which are intangible pyramids of meaning cumulatively built up by thousands of generations of fellow humans.

In a sense, therefore, the Cartesian argument for the human-uniqueness of consciousness rests on the premise that material processes are insufficient to account for human capacities for language, rationality, and self-awareness (i.e. the awareness of oneself as, putatively, an essentially thinking thing) — and hence a non-material soul was posited to account for these phenomena.

Determination of the molecular mechanisms underlying the genetic basis of human phenotypic uniqueness represents a particularly challenging task.

The absence of L/M defects in gibbons and other non-human catarrhines reveals the uniqueness of human color vision, in which the deletion of L or M opsin genes and the presence of L/M hybrid genes causes relatively high incidence of dichromacy and anomalous trichromacy [ 18, 91- 94].

We can work together to create a world built in understanding of human depth and uniqueness and not on shallow evaluation of appearance. 1. Don't make negative comments about a man's appearance and assume he doesn't care.