Homo sapiens

All for One? Or One for All? Introduction. In this paper, I will be taking on Peter Singer’s argument against speciesism. I will be doing this by first presenting his argument in Section I, then follow up with clarifying any words that need to be disambiguated. Section II will consist of my objection to this point in effort to counter it. Section III will include a possible response Singer would give for this raised objection. My main argument for Singer’s argument against speciesism considers…

have been created for the common people’s benefit. These organizations, have safely proven that vaccines can and do prevent other harmful illnesses, and can even eradicate them. Vaccines have changed the life-span of the human race, thus shaping Homo sapiens future as a whole. Though they have been credited to Edward Jenner, he cannot take all the credit. Edward Jenner was not the first person to provide to path to our vaccinations, but…

Humans, or homo sapiens, are complex animals who are autopoietic entities. This means that they are self-generating and are not dependent on anything external to the body to direct construction and maintenance processes. While humans are alive, they continue to generate themselves. Because nothing from our outside organisation can direct our operation, we are autonomous. We are structure determined as our behaviour is determined by our structure in a particular environment. We can be perturbed…

For a long time human ignorance and our ethical values have destroyed and diminished the land that surrounds us. In the “Land Ethic” by Aldo Leopold, the need for an ethic directed towards the creatures and land around us is stressed upon. Leopold mentions how a lack of an ecological conscience, a valuation problem, and a restricted vision of community result in the hindrance of a comprehensive land ethic. The absence of our care for our natural surroundings can also be seen in the four forms…

“factual, historical document”, will be supplanted with classes exposing the “good” book as ahistorical, scientifically disproven, and conspicuously manmade. In place of Adam and Eve and evil serpents, classes will contain the proven science of how homo sapiens were borne from an ancestral grouping of humans which evolved over millions of years and is inseparable from our precursors. As surprising as it might seem to some - people never lived inside of whales, or joy-rode upon Dinosaurs. Nor did…

Parmenides argued that Homo sapiens are conscious beings and are constantly aware. We can state that something exists or it does not, that “what is is and what is not not” where is refers to existence, being and not refers to non-being and nothingness (pg xx). Plato concluded that there are two different realms, the realm of being and becoming. For Plato, the realm of being encompasses that things do not change, born or die whereas, the realm of becoming holds that things do change and perish.…

It is impossible to watch the nightly news on the television or to browse an online news website without encountering a depressing story about Africa. A pirate leader in Somalia is holding the crew of a Norwegian merchant ship hostage. A traveler has spread Ebola to a new country, opening up an additional thirty million people to infection. A coup attempt failed in an African nation that the majority of Americans can’t place on a map. A famine is sweeping through an east African nation, leaving…

Let me introduce myself, I am George the Basset Hound and I am 44 years old (dog years that is). Today my mom Betty, and my dad Bob, are taking me on a walk to the park down the road. I heard them talking about it from across my house, but it was a little muffled due to my luxurious ears. I hear them walking down the hallway now, and I hear the sound of my leash jingling in my mom’s hand. We are walking down the side of the road now, and I hear all sorts of animals scattering in the leaves and…

Liberals are from Mars and conservative from Venus. The main theme of Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences is to present the reader with how neither is better than the other, but different. The book focuses on the analysis on how biology determines our political views and inclinations. John R. Hibbings, Kevin B. Smith and Jon R. Alford are the authors of Predisposed. As biopoliticians, they provide evidence of people’s view and how it differs based on…

Discussion: A linear discriminant function is a set of measurements that is weighed against other measurements to gain the most accurate estimation of all the measurements combined within a particular taxon of skeletal remains. The weighing of each set of measurements is to provide the smallest amount of error in determination of sex, ancestry and stature of a particular individual. By applying the tested methods of discriminant function analysis to the specimen of UC71 and UC20/UC53-Cranium,…