Regarding "Against Camel Case," by Caleb Crain in the On Language column (Nov. 29), I would like to point out that the name "Mylesna gCopaleen" is not solely "indulged as a prerogative of the human being, with all his individual strangeness"; it is also the grammatically correct way of writing the name in the Irish language.
This is where the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica story catches us — in the realization that the right to make autonomous choices, the basic prerogative of any human being, might soon be gone, and we won't even notice.
Although creativity does remain debated concept, some literature increasingly tends not to consider it as a prerogative of few special human agents.
This new parameter evaluates manual dexterity more accurately as it assesses the precision grip between the thumb and the index finger, a prerogative of primates including humans (see Lemon & Griffiths, 2005; Lemon, 2008 for review).
"Other clubs just choose a different model, which is the prerogative of the man in charge.
Space organization is an important part of human agents' spatial prerogatives constituted by intricate interplays between sensorial and cognitive attitudes.
More than 8.000 different flavonoids have been described and since they are prerogative of the kingdom of plants, they are part of human diet with a daily total intake amounting to 1 g, which is higher than all other classes of phytochemicals and known dietary antioxidants.
In my considered opinion, the juxtaposition of majuscule and minuscule in a personal name may be safely indulged as a prerogative of the human being, with all his individual strangeness, but to extend the same license to the fruits, literal and figurative, of human labor is another matter.
Prerogative is the right of the executive to act without explicit authorization for a law, or even contrary to the law, in order to better fulfill the laws that seek the preservation of human life.
Evidently, in healthy humans this alarm-system prerogative of the RCTA is difficult to prove and with current technology, its functions are impossible to disentangle from superimposed, conscious, forebrain-induced visual responses (Goodale and Milner, 1992; Crick and Koch, 1995).
