followed by the death of the embryo or fetus (Websters). So the issue at hand is abortion‚ while not everyone agrees on abortion‚ certainly people can agree on reducing the amount of unwanted pregnancies. Okay so I’ll be discussing pro-life first. Personhood begins at conception. I’ll start by taking a look at some pro-life beliefs to the abortion argument (should abortion be legalized or considered a crime?). The religious aspect‚ The Sixth Commandment of the Bible ’s Old Testament (Exodus 20:13) is
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The Aye-aye is one of the most interesting primates in the world. It is a very unique animal because it has a lot of traits that are specific unto itself. An example of the Aye-aye’s unique traits is that according to National Geographic “Aye-ayes are the only primates thought to use echolocation to find prey.” This is just one of the many unique characteristics that only the Aye-aye possesses. The Aye-aye is threatened by a lot of things that cannot merely decide to stop attacking it. They attack
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In primates‚ maintaining non-sexual pair bonds‚ “friendships”‚ involves serious cognitive work and emotions. While studying primates a linear relationship between time spent together and strength of relationship can be seen. The evidence to support these observations include the correlation between the numbers of alliances with the relative neocortex size. Human data on this topic is found to be similar to the observations of primates. With the data given by Dunbar‚
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interest areas as well”(Bonvillain 2006:8). The subfield of biological anthropology‚ or physical‚ focuses on the physical development of humans and our primate relatives throughout history. Augustin Fuentes said that anthropology is “the discipline that studies human and nonhuman primates in all their aspects”(Fuentes 2012:15). The nonhuman primates that he was referring to are monkeys‚ apes‚ and prosimians. Another subfield of anthropology is cultural anthropology. “Cultural anthropology focuses
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mechanisms developed over thousands of years of evolution. There are many anatomical features that have continued to change and develop throughout the evolution of man‚ but one seems to have the largest impact‚ increased endocranial capacity. From primates to Australopiths to Hominins and on to Homo sapiens‚ the endocranial capacity has steadily increased (the only outlier is Neanderthal’s‚ they had a larger brain capacity‚ but the species went extinct) from genus to genus. The increased brain capacity
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to show up in non-human communities as well‚ specifically in primates. The definition that I learned in class on the 5th of September includes any “group specific behavior transmitted non-genetically for reasons other than genetics or ecology” (King 2012). While the idea of culture may span multiple fields of anthropology‚ I find it extremely important to biological anthropology in order study the use of tools among non-human primates. This aspect of the topic answers the question‚ “Is language
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Slow Loris Introduction Slow lorises are a group of five species of strepsirrhine primates‚ which make up the genus Nycticebus. Found in South and Southeast Asia‚ they range from Bangladesh and Northeast India in the west to the Philippines in the east‚ and from the Yunnan province in China in the north to the island of Java in the south. Although many previous classifications recognized fewer species‚ five are now considered valid: the Sunda slow loris (N. coucang)‚ Bengal slow loris (N
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therefore does not count in the moral community. In On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion‚ Mary Anne Warren defines personhood‚ what defines a human being‚ with five concepts and the need to meet the majority of them(SOURCE). Warren affirms consciousness‚ reasoning‚ self-motivated activity‚ the capacity to communicate‚ and the presence of self- concept as the five components of personhood. Furthermore‚ she claims if an entity does not possess one of the five it should not be extended the moral rights
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If you visit Qinling Mountain and walk through the forests‚ you may see some golden figure swinging from trees to trees. They are golden snub-nosed monkeys‚ which I think are the most beautiful kind of primates in the world. Golden snub-nosed monkeys are famous for their golden hair and pale blue faces. Another obvious characteristic of this kind of monkeys is that there are no bones in their noses. With these features‚ you can easily recognize them. Golden snub-nosed monkeys are about 66-76cm
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In this essay we will be discussing arguments against abortion. The first set of arguments we will consider are biblical arguments. That being said‚ we must begin by acknowledging that the Bible doesn’t say anything about abortion directly. Why the silence of the Bible on abortion? The answer is simple. Abortion was so unthinkable to an Israelite woman that there was no need to even mention it in the criminal code. Why was abortion an unthinkable act? First‚ children were viewed as a gift or heritage
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