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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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While the European Convention uses a holistic personality-identity framework for focusing on the value of the human being and the dignity and value of humanhood, the Bioethics Convention endeavors to enlarge and build upon this concept of respect, dignity, and protection and seeks to apply it to human substances as well, thereby safeguarding genetic heritage.
The statement of Rabbi Moshe David Tendler that "the proposition that humanhood begins at zygote formation, even in vitro, is without basis in [Jewish] biblical moral theology" should make hypercertain Catholics a little humbler about their pronouncements about ensoulment.
A Deficient, Subhuman Gender Down through the ages, women have been persistently portrayed as a subpar species, sometimes lacking even the most fundamental vestiges of humanhood.
 
 
 
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