In sexually reproducing organisms, humans included, every individual has a unique hereditary endowment.
We are humans, language is our unique human endowment, yet we have not been able to take advantage of that when interacting with machines.
This is actualized through its own individualized use of its unique cellular/genomic endowment from which its 'self' arises.
"With Australia's magnificent natural endowment of unique marine biodiversity comes a responsibility to protect our oceans from the risks of bottom trawling and oil and gas exploration," the foundation's executive director, Don Henry, said in a statement.
The award has been financially supported by a generous gift from Laura and Jack Dangermond and the Environmental Systems Research Institute to establish an AAG IGIF Endowment for this unique grant program.
Cameron et al. (2005), reviewing the outcomes of poverty during early development, write that such effects on gene expression "represent, in part, the process by which variations in socioeconomic status (SES) are 'biologically embedded.'" Seen from this perspective, the social ecology prevailing during early development, like genetic endowment, creates a unique biologic heritage.
Such ecological capital is a unique and important component of the entire natural capital endowment that supports, protects and is used by economic systems.
As the most widely documented language in human history, English holds a unique key to unlocking some of the mysteries of the uniquely human endowment of language.
Each of those generations received it in trust from the one that came before, added its own unique contributions to it, and then passed it on as an endowment to the next.
Philosophically, better understanding our biological endowment would paint part of the picture of what is unique about humans -- what makes us humans and not chimpanzees.
Whatever gifts we each have are far more likely, from what we know of genetics, to be unique individual constellations of genes than to be expressions of group endowments.
