Sentences with phrase «animals human attributes»
But both groups of Native American kids were more likely to imagine they were the animals rather than give the animals human attributes.
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Whatever is self - aware or able to value its own life (for example) is designated as a «person,» even if it is an animal, while people lacking these attributes are denigrated as human «non-persons» — an invidious category that includes all of the unborn, as well as (for many bioethics practitioners) infants and those with profound cognitive disabilities.
The field of evolutionary psychology is demonstrating great - ape behavior so similar to human behavior that even some of our cherished «human» attributes like peacemaking and expressions of selflessness might be attributed to our animal selves.
People have a tendency to attribute human traits to disasters, just like they attribute human traits to animals.
Analogous to this are also feelings, consciousness, and intentions, which the child initially attributes to all beings and eventually limits to animals and humans; typically, as the previous statements about passivity and self - movement indicate, feelings, consciousness, and intentions are explicitly taken away from «things.»
It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»
There are many factors present in the perception of a situation by a human being that can not be attributed even to the higher animals.
Already, in ancient Greece and Rome, the fables attributed to the half - legendary Aesop were set in an indefinite period of the past «when animals talked like human beings.»
We attribute this reduction to behavioral changes of individual animals and to the exclusion of species with long - range movements from areas with higher human impact.
Such exhibitions of agility and bravado are the behavioral equivalent in humans of physical attributes such as antlers and horns in animals.
Like the figure at Panther Cave, the human figures all displayed animal attributes, such as wings, deer antlers, rabbit ears, or fur.
Children who heard descriptions of animals behaving like humans were less likely to attribute to a real animal a newly learned biological fact than were kids who heard realistic information.
Many researchers attribute the extinction to human causes — that is, they believe the animals were hunted and deprived of habitat until they died out.
While the personnel in Carpenter's study all defined a robot as a mechanical tool, they also often anthropomorphized them, assigning robots human or animal - like attributes, including gender, and displayed a kind of empathy toward the machines.
He attributes the initial rise of AIDS and the recent outbreaks of SARS to viral strains that mixed and morphed into deadlier forms when their original wild - animal hosts came into closer contact with human butchers and hunters.
This specialism may help to explain the fervour of his preaching against the sin of anthropomorphism — attributing human qualities to other animals.
However, given the damaging components of animal products, whether lean / low fat or not, and considering that nearly everything humans need for optimal health can be gotten from plant sources that are devoid of the toxic attributes of meat and dairy, it makes sense, if one wants long term health, to eat as little as possible (with exceptions, of course.
Interestingly, it is the very real human attributes that the animals display that are both raw and shameful, but it doesn't take very long for the reader to realize that human beings are no better than animals.
They have been used with success by both humans and animals, and you can't attribute improvements in animal health to the placebo effect!
This inspirational video is a telling example of the many advantages attributed to the human - animal bond.
Mother Nature endowed these tiny, sometimes dangerous parasites with all the physical attributes they need to survive and thrive: latch on to unsuspecting passerby, firmly attach to their human or animal host, and feed -LSB-...]
The animal protagonists in these stories possess human qualities and failings, and attributes such as the ability to speak and to reason.
His sculptures reflect an interest in the combination of the man - made and the organic, in which human or animal forms are supported by or merged with technological attributes.
Like tarot card figures, each sylphic form has specific attributes that shift fluidly between human, animal and inanimate forms and merge with the elements.
As writer friend Carl Safina puts it in his recent book, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, «When someone says you can't attribute human emotions to animals, they forget the key leveling detail: humans are animals.Animals Think and Feel, «When someone says you can't attribute human emotions to animals, they forget the key leveling detail: humans are animals.animals, they forget the key leveling detail: humans are animals.animals.»