They represented an "enlarging awareness of what it is to be human", said Lord Bragg.
You could say that this litany of sins indicates that I don't want to be human.
Australian police looking for a missing child say they have found what appear to be human remains inside a crocodile.
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And this revolution will "change what it means to be human, " he writes.
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" Genetic engineering, exults biologist Gregory Stock, "is going to expand our sense of what it means to be human.
An ice cream tub containing a substance believed to be human placenta has been found by a dog walker, police say.
And at a more elevated level, the biological knowledge generated will enhance understanding of what, exactly, it means to be human.
He argued that to be human is to have "ultimate concerns", namely something for which you would not only live, but die.
Studying the development of quokkas and crows is one way to go beyond just-so stories in trying to understand how we got to be human.
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Reason lets human beings participate in life, to be human is to think, appraise, and explore the world, discovering new sources of material and spiritual pleasure.
But Data -- named for the "Star Trek" android that yearns to be human -- and robots like him lack certain human attributes, most notably experience.
Philosophers at the Humboldt University of Berlin, meanwhile, are exploring the various ways in which robotic technologies challenge the notion of what it means to be human.
He would show himself to be human, vulnerable and bold.
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Some of the incomplete returns appeared to be human error, some of them were prepared by taxpayers using software packages and some of them were prepared at tax preparer offices.
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Deceptively simple but perfect for this time of year is Adin Steinsaltz's Simple Words , a series of short essays about what it means to be human in a material world.
This was the story of a man who wanted to completely figure out and embody what it means to be human, and just as completely figure out what computing in service of the fully-human should look like.
The idea of a Blank Slate has distorted our values in child rearing, sentencing, politics and education, he says, and we have nothing to fear from the idea that we are shaped to some extent by our genes, only a more realistic understanding of what it means to be human.
Dr Ward and Dr Kellis found that, in addition to the 5% of human DNA that is conserved between mammals, an additional 4% of human DNA appears to be uniquely human in the sense that it is prone to purifying selection in humans but not in other mammals.
It seems to be a human imperative to stretch ontological boundaries and strive for greater levels of detail.
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If you prefer your inflation to be purely human, stick broadly to financial services.
The Corporation is investigating the mix-up, but it is thought to be down to human error.
Drug concentrations in water are not thought to be harmful to human health, although concerns remain over possible effects on plant and animal life.
For women to be able to fully exercise their human rights, gender perspectives have to be mainstreamed in all inclusive urban policies.
She can describe a past incident and tell a lie, skills once thought to be exclusively human.
The cells did not contain a strain of PERVs known to be able to infect human cells.
"No one gave more profound 'How to be a Human Being' lessons than Jean Stapleton, " Lear said Saturday.
But Seepersad Naipaul appears to be the only human to have ever pierced his son's grim disaffection with the world.
The independent newspaper, Nezavisimaya Gazeta looks for a positive angle on what may yet prove to be a human disaster.
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