Sentences with phrase «among humans and animals»

The virility of our men and the fecundity of our women have also been noted; families tend to be large here, and the urge to mate is strong among both humans and animals.

COMPARE is a large EU project with the intention to speed up the detection of and response to disease outbreaks among humans and animals worldwide through the use of new genome technology.

The gene's mobility enables the strain to spread easily among humans and animals.

While searching for their forever homes, they live in a scenic, healing environment among human and animal friends.

Not exact matches

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

Many species clearly demonstrate the same principle, so it is an evolved trait among social animals, and existed long before humans or any of the religions man has created.

Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»

We would not interfere with the wilderness ways in which animals suffer and are killed by one another, but we think that there is far more, and far less necessary, suffering among creatures for whom human beings have assumed responsibility.

At most, you can find Genesis 9:1 - 6 as allowing eating of meat and not explicitly stating that it is OK to eat human flesh (as long as you don't consider humans as «moving» creatures), but as far as looking at the law in detail goes; search the Law in detail and you will find many explicitly laid out things that you «shall not eat» listing many different types of animals and circumstances but you will not find humans listed among them.

Human intelligence has other ingredients, some of which are also shared by some animals, but, in general, intelligence among animals can be measured by the speed of learning and the complexity of what is learned.

St Francis is one of the best - loved saints, not only among Christians, but also among environmentalists and animal rights campaigners: he loved nature, animals and every human person.

To support his claim that property is natural, Pipes appeals to biological studies of possessiveness and territoriality among human beings and other animals.

The constitution of a society prescribes the forms of justice only when it provides for that kind of interaction among individuals, and between individuals and the physical environment, which creates the human mind, and which sustains that scope of understanding, power of action and richness of appreciation which is distinctively human in contrast to the lower animals.

Water binds all animate objects to the earth and is the source of affinity among living things, the ground of a profound, animistic empathy between humans and both animals and plants.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

For example, in one of the better chapters, entitled «Human Justice and Animal Fairness», the reader is introduced to Maasai systems of gift - giving, game theory as applied to chimpanzee behaviour, canine sensitivity to fairness, rules of play among wolves and rats, before a brief detour into Martha Nussbaum's development of Rawlsian justice theory leads us to an extended discussion of Aquinas» understanding of justice as a virtue, acquired and infused.

Moreover, since it can be applied to divine and angelic individuals as well as human, it defines the human being not only as he is knowable in his relation to the rest of created reality — as one biological species among others, i.e. as a rational animal — but also as he is knowable in his relation to other personal beings, angelic and divine.

In this regard, we described two types of biologically - based teleologies: (i) an external teleology, where there is a deliberate and conscious setting of goals, those that are generally found among human beings and possibly in higher animals; and (ii) an internal teleology, where there is no self - directed or conscious goal - seeking on the part of living organisms, such as in the natural selection of favorable traits among biologically adaptive species.

«Protection of human, animal, plant and environmental health are among the legitimate objectives for which product requirements may be developed.

Aggression toward humans and native animal species, the depletion of submerged vegetation in aquatic ecosystems and degraded water quality due to droppings are among the negative impacts of mute swan populations, environmental experts say.

So there are these empty holes in the Congo basin where there are no great apes and it is thought, and there is evidence to suggest, that that's from hemorrhagic fevers that are being passed around among animals and also among human communities.

Another great example is tuberculosis among elephants moving through populations now that the fences have come down around parks in South Africa and moving through human and domestic animal populations that are infected with tuberculosis or who could be infected with tuberculosis.

The more we look, the more continuity we find among animals and humans»

This study is among several funded under a public - private partnership established in 2008 between NICHD and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Inc., to establish a human - animal interaction research program to support studies relevant to child development, health, and the therapeutic use of animals.

Most animals can synthesize their own vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, in their livers, but humans are among the exceptions, along with other primates and oddballs like guinea pigs and bats.

The other derives from reports of intergroup fighting among hunter - gatherers; our ancestors lived as hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo genus until the Neolithic era, when humans began settling down to cultivate crops and breed animals, and some scattered groups still live that way.

The U.N. declaration calls for action on multiple fronts, including slashing the use of antibiotics to promote growth in farm animals, limiting their use among humans to only when they are truly necessary and ramping up education about these issues.

To determine what level of a toxin is safe, researchers take a dose that has no observed toxicological effect in an animal and divide it by 10 once (to account for the differences between species) and then again (to account for variations among humans» ability to handle toxins); for pesticides, the dose is then divided by 10 a third time (to allow for the extraordinary sensitivity of babies and children).

Among those is canine compulsive disorder (CCD), the counterpart to human obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD),» says the study's first and corresponding author Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DACVA, DACVB, professor in clinical sciences and section head and program director of animal behavior at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

And among lab animals, rats are considered particularly relevant to human cancer studies because they need the same nutrients and proportion of protein for maximal growth as humaAnd among lab animals, rats are considered particularly relevant to human cancer studies because they need the same nutrients and proportion of protein for maximal growth as humaand proportion of protein for maximal growth as humans.

«Gall and Damsky's experiment helps us understand how human - caused noise can interfere with the transfer of information among animals in social groups,» according Florida Atlantic University's Rindy Anderson, an expert in vocal communication in birds who was not involved with the study.

Genetics is also important for understanding how research scales up — or fails to — and translates from animal models to humans and among different human populations, says Henry Bryant, a research fellow at Lilly Research Laboratories in Indianapolis.

Starting then, humans disrupted relationships among plants and animals that had been stable for millions of years.

The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human By John Bradshaw From the dawn of domestication to pampered modern pets, anthrozoologist Bradshaw, author of the best - selling Cat Sense and Dog Sense, traces the evolution of predators into companions in this riveting read.

Only cartoons in which the main characters were either human or animal were included in the analysis, as it's not clear if the concept of death among «humanised» objects, such as cars and toys, exists.

Scientists said the platform is part of LLNL's broader vision for countering emerging and existing threats, allows them to study the networks formed among various regions of the brain, and obtain timely, human - relevant data without animal or human testing.

Such ornaments are ubiquitous in so - called Upper Paleolithic sites in Europe beginning about 40,000 years ago, where they were made from many different materials — animal and human teeth, bone and ivory, stone, and mollusk shells — and often varied widely among regions and sites.

THE HYBRID FACTOR To understand signs of interbreeding among humans, Neandertals and other ancient hominids, scientists are studying physical changes in the bodies of various animal hybrids.

The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.

«Our results showed that dog ownership and walking were related to increases in physical health among older adults,» said Johnson, who also serves as director of the Research Center for Human - Animal Interaction at MU.

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.

These syndromes — similar to personality types among humans — are present across the animal kingdom and include categories like «proactive» (animals are bold, aggressive, and risk - prone) and «reactive» (animals are shy, calm, and risk - averse).

The U.S. National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine recommended limits on such research in 2005, among them that no human stem cells be added to primate embryos and that animal - human chimeras not be allowed to breed.

A holistic strategy, One Health calls on professionals at all levels and disciplines to acknowledge the links among human, animal and environmental health, and to collaborate to improve all three.

Darwin was among the first to note that facial expressions are innate for humans and other animals.

Looking to the future Studying animal breathing rhythms and capacities can also help scientists better understand respiratory disease in marine animals, which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among marine animals in the wild and under human care, Fahlman said.

Humans are among the animals that have image - forming vision, and are able to see in colour in the day (polychromatic diurnal vision) and in black and white at night (monochromatic nocturnal vision)-- the shades of colour that we pick up on an evening out trigger our diurnal receptors at very low levels.

Shatz's lab was among the first to demonstrate that early spontaneous neural activity promotes the organization of billions of nerve cells within animal and human brains.

Citation: Shah C, VanGompel MJW, Naeem V, Chen Y, Lee T, Angeloni N, et al. (2010) Widespread Presence of Human BOULE Homologs among Animals and Conservation of Their Ancient Reproductive Function.

Goat Milk Compared to bigger animals such as cattle and horses, goats are considered as small livestock animals and are among the earliest animals domesticated by humans.