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humankind | American Dictionary

humankind
noun[ U ]
us/ˈhju·mənˌkɑɪnd/
the whole of the human race, including both men and women

Examples of humankind

humankind
Curiosity and the desire for effective control of nature to satisfy our purposes has driven humankind to seek explanations.
The unchronicled ages before humankind, on this account, created an animal nature to control, so that there could be persons.
Such hybridity in the affairs of humankind might well gladden the heart of a historian in the grip of post-modernism.
Subsisting on incomes around $100 or $200 per person per year, the poorer half of humankind is highly exposed to lifethreatening deprivations.
It was a sharp diagnosis of the present dilemma in which humankind finds itself.
Reflections of the thyroidology of fishes: from molecules to humankind.
In this paper, however, we would like to contend that the future of humankind might have been some alien civilization in the past!
The first, religion in itself, endures without change: the divine creation, like the final consummation, of humankind is affirmed.
Within this sphere the subject and scope of inter national law embrace not just humankind as individuals but the global commons and our shared ecosystems.
All humankind will resolve all national problems at the ultimate stage of communism, when the nations will amalgamate with one another.
But pecuniary motives are not innate to humankind: they are culturally formed.
The emblems of the serpent and the three fates evoke the fall of humankind and its concomitant renewal under socialism.
This synthesis also corresponds to a particular image of humankind.
As he notes, this implies a new loyalty - to humankind.
But if scientific research came naturally and free of all tension, it would not have taken humankind so long to develop effective scientific methods.
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