Sentences with phrase «about nonhuman»

In the fall, we hosted guest speaker Steven Wise, who spoke about the Nonhuman Rights Project's initiative to expand certain legal rights to animals.

There was little or noconversation among gerontologists about nonhuman aging models.

Aside from anecdotes, we know very little about nonhuman primate laughter and humor, but some of the most significant findings to emerge in comparative science over the past decade have involved the unexpected discovery that rats — particularly juvenile rats — laugh.

The monarchical model encourages militarism, dualism and escapism; it condones control through violence and oppression;, it has nothing to say about the nonhuman world.

Not exact matches

Soon after 1 -800-Flowers launched its bot in April, CEO Chris McCann says his team realized customers didn't mind texting with a nonhuman, but they wanted the company to be transparent about it.

But what about unitary nonhuman events, for example, those at the subatomic level?

The previous discussion indicates how Whitehead believes one can, by generalizing from occasions of human experience, talk meaningfully about the nature of nonhuman actual entities in themselves.

Even though this populace consists of about 15 - 20 percent of the Indian community it is considered sub - or nonhuman; thus it is not included in the community's composition.

Our nuclear knowledge brings to the surface a fundamental fact about human existence: we are part and parcel of the web of life and exist in interdependence with all other beings, both human and nonhuman.

The second chapter is about the consequences of that understanding for living in our relationships with others, including nonhuman life.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

Science has learned a great deal about complex social behavior by studying nonhuman mammals and primates, but parrots might have something to teach too.

Studying these functions in nonhuman animals has given us the most detail about how neurons get put together to do complex functions because we can really look, neuron by neuron, at how vision gets put together, how motor control gets put together.

Many scientists thus refrain from using the word crying when referring to nonhumans, preferring to talk about distress vocalizations, or describe the acoustical properties of the sound.

Ethologist Frans de Waal has offered several observations of apparent empathy among nonhuman primates in his 1996 book Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, but richer insights come from a series of studies published about 40 years ago, when standards for animal welfare were minimal.

Hrdy has marshaled evidence from studies of nonhuman primates to make hypotheses about human sexuality.

Biologists disagree about the nature of emotions in nonhuman animals, and especially whether they consciously experience their emotions.

In one species, the black snub - nosed monkey (about 2,000 individuals are found in the wild), they identified several hypoxia - related genes that allowed them to thrive in the highest altitudes (a narrow region 3,400 - 4,500 meters above sea level in a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primate.

Yerkes National Primate Research Center researchers are the first to show that an irradiation plus transplantation combination approach in nonhuman primates can be used to treat or even possibly cure HIV / AIDS, and this new model is providing some answers about the «Berlin patient,» the only human thought cured of AIDS.

This year's 29th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate (NHP) Models for AIDS, which takes place from October 25 - 28 in Seattle, has about 50 % more registrants than last year, and the number of international registrants has doubled, said David Anderson, conference chair and director of the Washington National Primate Research Center.

Start by educating yourself about how farming impacts the animals and why you want to see the suffering of nonhumans end.

It is about fostering kindness, respect and empathy for both human and nonhuman animals, and looking after the environment and its diverse habitats.

The Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights actively works toward the acquisition of rights for all nonhuman animals by educating the public and the veterinary profession about a variety of issues concerning nonhuman animal use.

His new animation continues his inquiry into concepts of metamorphosis, encompassing concerns about time and the complex dynamic between human and nonhuman lifeforms.

«Having animals in human situations is always funny,» says Jane Kaplowitz, who made a series of watercolors featuring «lesbian» penguins and «gay» monkeys after reading a news article about homosexuality among nonhumans.

But I've also come to see substantial merit in the emerging concept of nonhuman personhood, having worked with Pace University students and faculty members in trying to pass legislation in New York banning circuses from using elephants, and absorbing much about animals» feelings and rights from writers and scientists like Carl Safina.

After I wrote over the weekend about new research on the killing method employed in the dolphin roundups undertaken in Taiji, Japan, a fascinating comment on the rights of «nonhuman persons» was posted by Thomas I. White, who is the Conrad N. Hilton Professor in Business Ethics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

It seems to me that, in one way or another, all three of these papers implicitly assume that we should care about the relationship between the human and nonhuman components of climate (or extreme weather probabilities).

On this edition of Lawyer2Lawyer, hosts Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams will talk with Wise about the case to grant a chimp the right to bodily liberty and The Nonhuman Rights Project's long - term plans for animal rights

In this episode of the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we talk with pioneering animal rights lawyer Steven M. Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, author of four books about animal rights, and lecturer at several law schools.