Old faces, new lives
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Ageing is often regarded negatively in the UK, with the elderly being seen as placing a heavy burden on health services and the economy. However, most old people are in fact in good health and have a high quality of life. It is clear that attention should focus on progressively improving the quality of old age, with the health span of a long life becoming approximately the same as the life span. It is also important to be aware that survival in good health in old age allows people to enter a new kind of life, free of the pressures of reproduction, child-rearing and career development.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
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Made by your own hands
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An analysis of how the development of the hand made humans more than just gifted chimpanzees and started us down the road to becoming self-aware humans is made in the light of the publication of the book "The Hand: A Philosophical Inquiry into Human Being". It is suggested that it is in the grasp of the human hand that humankind's remoteness from the natural world can be reconciled with our biological origins, and with the help of which we can be liberated from the belief that nearly everything of importance about humans can be explained in biological or evolutionary terms.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Life - just as we know it
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Even if the world had developed along different lines, it would have been inevitable that humanoid creatures would have developed. It is argued that an examination of the natural world reveals that there is a remarkable convergences between the biology and intelligences of a number of species, and that these convergences make it inevitable that some form of humanoid would develop, no matter what the natural environment.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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