Sentences with phrase «because humans and other mammals»

Muggy heat is more oppressive than the «dry» kind, because humans and other mammals cool down by sweating; sweat evaporates off the skin into the air, taking the excess heat with it.

Because humans and other mammals are able to make their own DHA from other fatty acids, DHA deficiency isn't very common.

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In any Introduction to Biological Anthropology class, students learn that the human infant is the most vulnerable, contact dependent, slowest developing and most dependent primate - mammal of all, largely because humans are born neurologically premature, relative to other primate mammals.

As for your final question, no mammals drink milk into adulthood (except for humans drinking the milk of other species who have produced the milk for their own babies) so the likelihood of a 15 year old wanting to breastfeed because they're in hospital is extremely low and actually non existent in my opinion unless the child has been abused.

Fences allow lions and other wildlife to survive on fragments of land on which it would otherwise be impossible to conserve large mammals because they keep big animals from coming into conflict with humans, livestock and agriculture.

But these symptoms are not limited to us humans, because other mammals such as dogs, cats and horses may exhibit similar symptoms after feeding.

Humans and other mammals have the ability to pinpoint sound sources because of the finite speed of sound combined with the separation between our ears.

The impact on wild populations could be profound, they say, and because the processes of reproductive development are remarkably well conserved among mammals, these effects are very likely to be occurring among other mammalian species, including humans.

«This process contributes to about 200 different cell types in humans and other mammals, but analyzing them will be difficult, because they will need to be studied in a tissue.»

The team determined that the fecal samples were from humans because other mammals, such as wolves and lions, can not convert cholesterol to coprostanol, as primates do when they eat meat.

Previous reports have argued that the genes that regulate brain development and function evolved much more rapidly in humans than in nonhuman primates and other mammals because of natural selection processes unique to the human lineage.

It's lucky that humans, and some other primates, have this particular immune reaction, because other mammals don't, so this vaccine wouldn't work on them.

George Q. Daley, a stem cell biologist at Boston Children's Hospital, said Dr. Niakan's study of human embryos was «critical because we know them to be quite different from embryos of mice» and other mammals studied in laboratories.

It is because of this similarity between the bodies of humans and other mammals that many pet owners have started using commercial CBD - infused products on their animals.