The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

Apparently, however, Miller has relied heavily on the anatomy in dogs and cats, and he has been criticized for using pathologic human material in his normal study ( Loosli, '38 ).

Anthropologists study topics including Homo sapiens origin and evolution, the organization of human social and cultural relations, human physical traits, how humans behave, the variations among different groups of humans, how the evolutionary past of Homo sapiens has influenced its social organization and culture, and so forth.

The study of kinship and social organization is a central focus of cultural anthropology, as kinship is a human universal.

Archaeology is the study of the human past through its material remains.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Programs of ethnographic study originated in this era as the study of the " human primitives " overseen by colonial administrations.

She demonstrates a remarkably thorough education, including some art courses that involved study of human anatomy through the study of human cadavers.

A study conducted in 1901 by physician Duncan MacDougall sought to measure the weight lost by a human when the soul " departed the body " upon death.

It has therefore been argued that astrology began as a study as soon as human beings made conscious attempts to measure, record, and predict seasonal changes by reference to astronomical cycles.

As Freda Easton explained in her study of Waldorf schools, " Whether one accepts anthroposophy as a science depends upon whether one accepts Steiner's interpretation of a science that extends the consciousness and capacity of human beings to experience their inner spiritual world.

These AC's are the most familiar based on extensive study due to their important roles in human health.

Todd Bostwick argued that " archaeoastronomy is anthropology – the study of human behavior in the past and present.

This method can be used for example for further study of enamel and dentin of human teeth and bones.

Regarding the shape of the breast, the study The Evolution of the Human Beast ( 2001 ) proposed that the rounded shape of a woman's breast evolved to prevent the sucking infant offspring from suffocating while feeding at the teat ; that is, because of the human infant's small jaw, which did not project from the face to reach the nipple, he or she might block the nostrils against the mother's breast if it were of a flatter form ( cf.

* Morris, Desmond The Naked Ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal Bantam Books, Canada.

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

From that work we learn that the higher education of the youth of Baghdad consisted principally in a minute and careful study of the rules and principles of grammar, and in their committing to memory the whole of the Qur ' an, a treatise or two on philology and jurisprudence, and the choicest Arabic poetry.

Cognitive scientists study memory just as psychologists do, but tend to focus in more on how memory bears on cognitive processes, and the interrelationship between cognition and memory.

In the study of declarative memory, the hippocampus and the amygdala are two structures frequently examined using this technique.

Adolph, Cahill and Schul completed a study showing that emotional arousal facilitates the encoding of material into long term declarative memory.

One study found that the first 3. 5 hours of sleep offer the greatest performance enhancement on memory recall tasks because the first couple of hours are dominated by SWS.

Thus this study suggests that full sleep may not be important for optimal performance of memory.

This study found that sleep improved memory retention of emotional text only during late sleep phase, which was primarily REM.

From these hypotheses predictions about specific events are derived ( e. g., " People who study a word list while listening to vocal music will remember fewer words on a later memory test than people who study a word list in silence .").

With over 30 million people worldwide today suffering Alzheimer's Disease each year, the study at UCLA helped discover that ongoing stimulation of the entorhinal cortex wasn't a necessary means to boost one's memory.

Examples of skilled memory research described within the Ericcson and Stasewski study include:

The aims of the institution, which is still in full activity, are to support the Conservatorio initiatives and to promote the study and the spread worldwide of the figure, the memory, and the works of Rossini.

The term is also related to the study of knowledge retention or memory ( see also cognition ).

Hermann Ebbinghaus ( January 24, 1850 — February 26, 1909 ) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

Prior to Ebbinghaus, most contributions to the study of memory were undertaken by philosophers and centered on observational description and speculation.

This dichotomy between descriptive and experimental study of memory would resonate later in Ebbinghaus ’ s life, particularly in his public argument with former colleague Wilhelm Dilthey.

This research was coupled with the growing development of mechanized mnemometers, or devices that aided in the recording and study of memory.

The most famous case in recent memory studies is the case study of HM, who had parts of his hippocampus, parahippocampal cortices, and surrounding tissue removed in an attempt to cure his epilepsy.

Another study revealed that how long an item spends in short-term memory is not the key determinant in its strength in long-term memory.

In 1992, a study by Deirdre Barrett examined whether lucid dreams contained four " corollaries " of lucidity: knowing that one dreams, that objects will disappear after waking, that physical laws need not apply, and having clear memory of the waking world, and found less than a quarter of lucidity accounts exhibited all four.

Although memory has traditionally been a persistent theme in philosophy, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also saw the study of memory emerge as a subject of inquiry within the paradigms of cognitive psychology.

The system could also be extended onto other stretches of the M6 as the government is going to undertake a feasibility study to determine other likely locations where this technology can be used.

He assured Mr. Martinelli and the council that he would study the correct method and report back to the council as soon as possible.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

In 1898 he went back to Paris to write a PhD dissertation on The Religious Philosophy of Kant at the Sorbonne, and to study in earnest with Widor.

The study concluded that one-on-one lessons in the Alexander Technique from registered teachers have long term benefits for patients with chronic back pain, and that six lessons followed by exercise prescription were nearly as effective as 24 lessons.

A 1996 Tel Aviv hospital study of 67 patients with back pain of more than three months duration found patients benefited from a multidisciplinary approach to treatment that included back schooling, psychological intervention, and treatment by acupuncture, chiropractic, the Alexander Technique and a pain specialist.

Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.

“… the study concludes that the increased Soviet defense spending provoked by Mr. Reagan's policies was not the straw that broke the back of the Empire.

Although the first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times ( these were bilingual dictionaries ), the systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest themselves is a 20th century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta.

Local education markets expanded and an increasing number of Finns also went abroad to study in the United States or Western Europe, bringing back advanced skills.

In a typical F wave study, a strong electrical stimulus ( supramaximal stimulation ) is applied to the skin surface above the distal portion of a nerve so that the impulse travels both distally ( towards the muscle fiber ) and proximally ( back to the motor neurons of the spinal cord ).

The study of the physical material of the Earth dates back at least to ancient Greece when Theophrastus ( 372-287 BCE ) wrote the work Peri Lithon ( On Stones ).

The study of Homer is one of the oldest topics in scholarship, dating back to antiquity.

The study of magnetism in Ancient China dates back to the 4th century BCE.

Local education markets expanded and an increasing number of Finns also went abroad to study in the United States or Western Europe, bringing back advanced skills.

And when he realized that I was determined to study in privacy in some obscure place, and saw that he gained nothing by entreaty, he descended to cursing, and said that God would surely curse my peace if I held back from giving help at a time of such great need.

The modern study of mineralogy was founded on the principles of crystallography ( the origins of geometric crystallography, itself, can be traced back to the mineralogy practiced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ) and to the microscopic study of rock sections with the invention of the microscope in the 17th century.

Atta went back to Egypt on August 1, 1995, for three months of study.

The study of the nervous system dates back to ancient Egypt.

When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study.

The study of proverbs is called: paremiology ( from Greek παροιμία-paroimía, " proverb ") and can be dated back as far as Aristotle.

The study of human physiology dates back to at least 420 B. C.