Sentences with phrase «animals other than human beings»

Comparative psychology, taken in its most usual, broad sense, refers to the study of the behavior and mental life of animals other than human beings.

Not exact matches

The lengthy research cited on HVMN's website and others are primarily animal studies, rather than human studies, and primarily test one of two compounds in combination, rather than the half - dozen contained in a product like SPRINT.

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.

well if i had a theory and later found it to not be ture and refuted it then i would not want anyone else to belive it either as i found it wasnt true and further more i would like to think that me and all other humans are better than coming from an animal that eats bugs off its friends and throws its own poo... I'm just saying

That said: «But god did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evil.

The dog story is sweet — not really about religion at all, but a good reminder of the love in animals other than humans.

There is no reason to believe that the skins were anything other than skins from a regular animal (obviously it was not human).

When the image of God entered into the species which is humankind, that species was ordained to find its order on a plane other than the animal, and because of the presence of that divine image, dominance on the human plane is not a natural order but a disorder.

If you look at the complexity of the universe and everything in it, to think it happened by accident from some chemicals mixing together and eventually mutating into humans and other animals is way more difficult to believe in than god.

Nothing like being called a depraved animal, a rat, scum, garbage, less than human or any of the other names that atheists get called on a regular basis, not to mention no threats of eternal torture.

In fact, some would say that there is no human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

Why is it different or better than any other animal or even mechanical «life» (once machines can begin calculating choices as fast as humans).

Every other animal (other than humans) are atheists.

The pope is just another animal of the «human kind» he's no more special than any other human animal.

For example, if man were defined as essentially a rational animal, rationality could not admit of degrees, and «more» of it would not constitute a norm or an ideal, without entailing that some human beings are less «human» than others.

Deane - Drummond's aim is to lead her readers to consider the human being first and foremost as linked with other animals — ecologically and evolutionarily — rather than as separate from them.

Religion is just arrogance in hyper - drive... «not only are we better than the animals, we are better than those other humans over there».

Barring a few great thinkers / philosophers / astronomers who have walked the earth, 99.9999... % of the human race is no better than any other animal species.

It is thought, however, that levels of these fatty acids at levels greater than those found in human breast milk may have adverse effects on growth, survival, and neurodevelopment in other animals.

So the animal studies give us only a hint at how early experience can affect development — the way human babies are treated by caregivers has even more effects on them than for any other animal because they are born so immature.

Some will be obviously pregnancy - related (the usual ones involve breastfeeding something other than a human baby or putting an animal or your baby in the oven or microwave to «cook» awhile longer), and others will be just plain weird or upsetting, like your childhood nightmares.

10 There is no animal model of SIDS and it has never been observed to occur naturally in any species other than humans.2 While the standardization of a SIDS diagnosis has been and continues to be elusive and / or inconsistent, it is most often applied to situations in which an otherwise healthy infant between the ages of 8 - 16 weeks, especially, but up to 12 months, dies suddenly and unexpectedly presumably during its sleep and upon postmortem examination no apparent internal causal factor (s) explaining the death can be identified.11, 12

Of course, reality is a lot more complicated than this rough caricature — biology is NOT destiny for animals with a complex brain, and human instincts are filtered through layer upon layer of culture and other learned behavior.

Macaques are close genetic relatives to humans, making the monkeys better analogs than other lab animals.

The frequency of recombination in the honeybee is higher than measured in any other animal and is more than 20 x higher than in humans.

Other than humans, they are the only animal known to advertise their homes in their calls.

That's because in many animal species (including humans, according to some researchers) some males have more competitive sperm than others.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

Bonds between humans and their animal companions may be more important than rigid biological criteria, Larson and other researchers argue.

Alpha rhythms are stronger in humans than other animals, and Carhart - Harris thinks it could be a signature of high - level human consciousness.

The amoebae are not the only animals other than humans to engage in quasi-agricultural behavior — although they are the tiniest.

The findings suggest that the jays may be able to understand another's point of view, an ability rarely seen in animals other than humans.

The amazing variety of human faces — far greater than that of most other animals — is the result of evolutionary pressure to make each of us unique and easily recognizable, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

One question in an animal cognition is whether animals other than humans have the ability to recognise themselves.

Other antibiotics are more often used in humans than in animals.

Males and females frequently copulate face - to - face, which is an uncommon position in animals other than humans.

This makes the world much more colorful for most animals than it is for human beings and other mammals.

«Physically, pigs are much closer to the size and scale of humans than other animals, and they respond to health threats similarly.

Prather says achieving this success with pigs is notable because pigs are much closer to humans than many other test animals.

This is the first time that such a sophisticated political maneuver has been described in animals other than humans.

Armadillos, one of the only animals other than humans to carry leprosy, have been spreading the rare bacterial disease in the southern U.S. Stay away from that roadkill.

Other than humans, animals don't have clocks and calendars, computers and smart phones, but their internal, physiological mechanisms are just about as accurate as those devices, according to Prendergast.

«Dogs have been cohabitating with humans for longer than any other animal,» Dilks says.

Humans are generally highly cooperative and often impressively altruistic, quicker than any other animal species to help out strangers in need.

So far, they haven't been able to find the virus's «animal reservoir» (the species it infects other than humans), or nail down how people are infected and how many mild or asymptomatic infections there are in the region.

Rather than the psittaci strain that's common in other animals, koalas are usually infected with C. pecorum, which shares a DNA homology, or similarity, of less than 10 percent with the human strain.

That's because most studies on single human brain cells use dead rather than living tissue, and many others rely on cells from common laboratory animals, especially mice.

«Until now, it's only been suspected that mosquitoes bite males — whether they're humans, birds or other animals — more often than females,» he said.

Such models are valuable for the analysis of parameters associated with vaccine safety, immunogenicity, delivery and protection as NHPs replicate key features of the human immune response more faithfully than any other animal model.