A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.