But in recent times it seems to have also become plagued with existential angst as the implications of human ingenuity begin to be (dimly) glimpsed.
Britten's "Four Sea Interludes" might seem like scene painting, too, but as excerpts from his opera "Peter Grimes," they have implications of human psychology, not just wind and waves.
Evolutionary psychologists ask: What are the implications of human evolutionary history (e.g., living in omnivorous and hierarchical primate groups populated by kin) for the design of the human mind?
Having first contradicted Kafka in deciding that the charwoman employed by Gregor's parents did not dispose of their monstrous son, Estrin, like Gregor, is liberated to explore the implications of human intelligence trapped in a cracked carapace (remember the apple the appalled Papa Samsa throws so violently it permanently wounds his son?).
Now I say that my formative years were a time of raging debates about the political implications of human nature, or that my parents subscribed to a Time-Life series of science books, and my eye was caught by the one called "The Mind," or that one day a friend took me to hear a lecture by the great Canadian psychologist D. O. Hebb, and I was hooked.
This study was supported by project "Ethical, legal, and social implications of human microbiome research" funded by China National Social Science Foundation (16CZX064).
We underline the main characteristics of those landscapes and the implications of human impacts on Earth surface processes.
But though stem cell research in general is booming in Germany, the political implications of human embryonic stem cell research remain unresolved.
As I discuss in this review, the potentially wide implications of human knockout research warrant increased investment and multidisciplinary collaborations to overcome existing challenges and reap its benefits.
