anthropocentric
adjective
an·thro·po·cen·tric
ˌan(t)-thrə-pə-ˈsen-trik 
1
: considering human beings as the most significant entity of the universe
2
: interpreting or regarding the world in terms of human values and experiences
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Losing big The first anthropocentric claim: Polar bears are a non-native species.
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
Traditionally, assessing the quality of different habitats and marine environments is done from an anthropocentric perspective.
—Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 7 Aug. 2024
The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
What Bell tests allow physicists to do is remove the bias of anthropocentric aesthetic judgments from the equation.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2022
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
Traditionally, assessing the quality of different habitats and marine environments is done from an anthropocentric perspective.
—Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 7 Aug. 2024
The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
What Bell tests allow physicists to do is remove the bias of anthropocentric aesthetic judgments from the equation.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2022
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“Anthropocentric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropocentric. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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