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human: see anthropology anthropology, classification and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human social relations has been the distinctive concept of culture .
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; human evolution human evolution, theory of the origins of the human species, Homo sapiens. Modern understanding of human origins is derived largely from the findings of paleontology , anthropology , and genetics , and involves the process of natural selection (see Darwinism ).
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; race race, one of the group of populations regarded as constituting humanity. The differences that have historically determined the classification into races are predominantly physical aspects of appearance that are generally hereditary.
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The scientific facts about the beginning of human life are indisputable.
Over against the supposedly more complex life issues of social justice, the church hierarchy contends that there is a simple and absolute duty to protect human life in any and all its biological stages.
But since no therapeutic application of embryonic stem cells has yet to be found anywhere in the world, it seems unlikely, particularly considering that the use of non-embryonic stem cells, which do not entail the destruction of human life, looks more and more promising.
 
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