Links between human and animal life in the Age of Anthropocene: From molecules, through reactions to cells, development and ethical implications
Abstract
In the last two hundred years, discoveries in animal and human physiology, disease, and drug development have been made. Animals stood at the centre of the experiments to optimise the drug doses and administration routes. Human progress has been driven by various anthropogenic aims and desires. The knowledge development and discoveries continue to increase about the fundamental reality of human existence and the ontological realm in which the socio-ecological systems continue to evolve. Members of Homo sapiens have now reached an understanding, power of knowledge and actions which have the ability to influence the Earth’s ecosystem. This produces the by-products of human progress, e.g. CO2 and these have started to alter the fundamental/situational reality boundary of human existence and the ontological realm of the socio-ecological systems. Benefits and suffering of humans and animals, separately and together, can be viewed through various lenses, e.g. the precautionary principle. The current article uses the methodology which is a combination of bioethical analysis and a theoretical biology analysis of the precautionary principle and its implications into the relationship between human and broader socio-ecological systems. The principle can provide some guidance on ethical understanding of the duality of human actions during Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration and how it is linked to the very chemical essence of life. Humans develop their knowledge about the…
Read the paper
Related studies
- Structural and topological analysis of thiosemicarbazone-based metal complexes: computational and experimental study of bacterial biofilm inhibition and antioxidant activity
- Toward better cures for Mycobacterium abscessus lung disease
- Challenges for global antibiotic regimen planning and establishing antimicrobial resistance targets: implications for the WHO Essential Medicines List and AWaRe antibiotic book dosing
- Design, Synthesis and In vitro Antitubercular Effect of New Chalcone Derivatives Coupled with 1,2,3‐Triazoles: A Computational Docking Techniques
- Upregulation of pmrA, pmrB, pmrC, phoQ, phoP, and arnT genes contributing to resistance to colistin in superbug Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from human clinical samples in Tehran, Iran
- Whole-genome sequencing of clinical isolates of Citrobacter Europaeus in China carrying blaOXA−48 and blaNDM−1
Go deeper in Evidence Hub
Evidence Hub adds a study data sheet (design, sample size, evidence level, key numbers), an AI summary and a chat grounded in the paper's text.