Word: humanizes
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...This is the most interesting, most important question of human history," Diamond said. "Finding the answer to this inherently simple question is difficult...
Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, said the human population has homogenized because of changes in lifestyle that he called "agricultural expansion...
...This orientation of the axes has had a huge effect on human history," he said. "The result is that crops and livestock domesticated in one part of Eurasia quickly spread to the rest of that continent...
Obviously, much of the Onion's humor is rather low brow. Its real comic brilliance in Our Dumb Century lies in the way it uses irony to expose the raw, humorous side of human affairs. Headlines such as "Stock Market Invincible" in 1929 and "Archduke Ferdinand Declares 'No Man Can Stop Me"' in 1913 show the follies of complacency and our confidence to predict or control the future. Also, much of the Onion has a very proletarian feel about it, exposing the rulers of society as they dominate the common people, as when Woodrow Wilson promises to "make the world...
...While the results are tantalizing, Gorman cautions that they are far from conclusive, and years away from being proved safe and effective for human application. "Mouse models," she says, "don?t always work in humans." Moreover, tinkering with genes poses special problems. "We don?t know what the consequences are of disabling this gene," says Gorman. "Could it have consequences, for example, on a similar gene in the human body?" Until these more exotic endeavors pan out, Gorman emphasizes that one of the best ways to shore up our current defenses against bacteria may be simply to stop undercutting them...