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Humanity and human DNA

European Journal of Medical Genetics, 2012
Genetics has marked the second half of the 20th century by addressing such formidable problems as the identification of our genes and their role, their interaction with the environment, and even their therapeutic uses. The identification of genes raises questions about differences between humans and non-humans, as well as about the evolution towards ...
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Human, stubbornly human, sensibly human?

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 2019
A century ago, shortly before his death, Simmel (1964) formulated an enigmatic idea of a philosophical sociology as a ‘study of the epistemological and metaphysical aspects of society’ (23) concern...
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More Human than Human

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2017
Abstract:Within the literature surrounding nonhuman animals on the one hand and cognitively disabled humans on the other, there is much discussion of where beings that do not satisfy the criteria for personhood fit in our moral deliberations. In the future, we may face a different but related problem: that we might create (or cause the creation of ...
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Human Inflammaging

Gerontology, 2019
Human aging is a very complex process that occurs in an intricate biological and physiological setting. Many changes occur with aging and among the most important are changes in immune reactivity associated with cell differentiation stages and the phenomenon of inflammaging, understood as subclinical inflammatory readiness, manifested by elevated ...
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Human rights, human needs, human development, human security [PDF]

open access: possible, 2007
Human rights, human development and human security form increasingly important, partly interconnected, partly competitive and misunderstood ethical and policy discourses. Each tries to humanize a pre-existing and unavoidable major discourse of everyday life, policy and politics; each has emerged within the United Nations world; each relies implicitly ...
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Human dignity in Renaissance humanism

2014
Renaissance humanism As a topic worthy of sustained and systematic scrutiny, human dignity first appeared on the philosophical agenda in the Renaissance. An indication of this is the appearance, from the middle of the fifteenth century onwards, of several tracts about the dignity and excellence of man.
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HUMAN CYTOGENETICS

British Medical Bulletin, 1961
May I begin by recalling that at the Copenhagen Conference five years ago, Tjio and Levan had just published their almost apologetic announcement that they could only find 46 chromosomes in cultured human somatic cells, and Hamerton and I presented evidence that there were 23 bivalents in spermatocytes, not 24.Since that time there has been a very ...
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Human Evolution

RAIN, 1979
AbstractThe common ancestor of modern humans and the great apes is estimated to have lived between 5 and 8 Myrs ago, but the earliest evidence in the human, or hominid, fossil record is Ardipithecus ramidus, from a 4.5 Myr Ethiopian site. This genus was succeeded by Australopithecus, within which four species are presently recognised.
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Galvanic Humans

2016
Charts use of galvanic currents and then Voltaic Pile to learn about role of electricity in life -- and death.
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Humanizing Humanity

Humanizing Humanityis distinctively framed advocacy of the ways in which the concept of humanity has been defended by various ideologues of India like Tagore, Gandhi, and Ambedkar.By grounding itself in the epistemology of intellectual history, the book delineates how these three major thinkers visualised the ways in which society can be better ...
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