human species
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhumanandspecies
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human
adjective
uk/ˈhjuː.mən/us/ˈhjuː.mən/
being, relating to, or belonging to a person or to people as opposed ...
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species
noun[C]
uk/ˈspiː.ʃiːz/us/ˈspiː.ʃiːz/
a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with ...
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(Definition ofhumanandspeciesfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Arguably, to think otherwise is to fail to appreciate the remarkable diversity of cognitive capacities found throughout thehumanspecies.
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For example, suppose that we inadvertently expose thehumanspeciesto serious threats by reducing the diversity of the human genotype through genetic modification.
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What gave the discipline its momentary importance was the idea that textual analyses enabled philologists to describe the origins of thehumanspecies.
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On the contrary, speech is the normal means of linguistic communication across the entirehumanspecies, with gesturing always being ancillary.
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These heuristics have developed in thehumanspeciesbecause they lead to accurate decisions and effective behavior in most circumstances.
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Understanding the human genome could also allow selective and malign manipulation of thehumanspecies.
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It has taken thousands of years of adaptation for thehumanspeciesto evolve into its present form.
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Thehumanspecies, like any other, is variable, the variety stemming from different genotypes which develop in different environments.
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For we are to understand that such a process is something in which thehumanspeciesis continually involved.
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It is also true that the historical period of human life represents a ridiculously small part of the lifetime of thehumanspecies.
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This applies to both thehumanspeciesand nonhuman primates.
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This finding is also relevant for the rapidly developing research on language origin in thehumanspecies.
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In conclusion, once it had endowed thehumanspecieswith a high level of conscious reflection, nature had no choice.
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He meant the resulting destruction and ruin of civilization, which ultimately permits the eradication of thehumanspecies.
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This accommodation is likely a response to gravitational influences on blood flow and might explain the uniqueness of the preeclamptic syndrome to thehumanspecies.
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As such, they show principles of human behavior that are shared by thehumanspeciesas a whole.
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An archaeology of food then focuses on nutrition and the biological needs of thehumanspecies.
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