Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to humans or the era of human life.
- adjective Concerned primarily with humans; anthropocentric.
from The Century Dictionary.
- [capitalized] In geology, a term introduced by Sir J. W. Dawson to designate the human period, or the period of such Pleistocene and recent deposits as are found to contain human relics. It was divided by him into an early, or Palanthropic, and a late, or Neanthropic, stage. See
human period . - Belonging to man; manlike; sprung from man; human.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.), rare Like or related to man; human.
- adjective relating to the period of mankind's existence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
mankind orhumans , or the period of humanity's existence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"In 1974, this guy Brandon Carter came up with what he called the anthropic principle," Morris continues.
Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs By David Samuels 2008
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The third creationist argument called the anthropic cosmological principle, made by a whole army of Christian theologians and authors, is that the universe is fine-tuned for life, in particular, human life.
Victor Stenger: Did the Universe Come From Nothing? Victor Stenger 2010
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The third creationist argument called the anthropic cosmological principle, made by a whole army of Christian theologians and authors, is that the universe is fine-tuned for life, in particular, human life.
Victor Stenger: Did the Universe Come From Nothing? Victor Stenger 2010
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After Darwin showed how, thanks to natural selection, you can get design-like effects without a designer, that was the end of the argument -- and attempts at revival by physicists through the so-called anthropic principle are doomed to failure.
Michael Ruse: Darwin And Atheism Michael Ruse 2011
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After Darwin showed how, thanks to natural selection, you can get design-like effects without a designer, that was the end of the argument -- and attempts at revival by physicists through the so-called anthropic principle are doomed to failure.
Michael Ruse: Darwin And Atheism Michael Ruse 2011
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This theory is based on the so-called anthropic principle, which comes in two varieties, the weak and the strong.
Deepak Chopra: Hawking's Grand Book, But Where Is the Design? (Part 2) 2010
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Jenkns and Perez write about a provocative hypothesis known as the anthropic principle, which states that the existence of intelligent life capable of studying physical processes imposes constraints on the possible form of the laws of physics.
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This theory is based on the so-called anthropic principle, which comes in two varieties, the weak and the strong.
Deepak Chopra: Hawking's Grand Book, But Where Is the Design? (Part 2) 2010
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This theory is based on the so-called anthropic principle, which comes in two varieties, the weak and the strong.
Deepak Chopra: Hawking's Grand Book, But Where Is the Design? (Part 2) 2010
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"You need to look at something called the anthropic principle", he said, "it suggests that the universe works in such a way that we are the outcome".
Irish Blogs 2009
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