Sentences with phrase «as humans and other mammals»

It's this diversity of looks that make man's best friend the perfect laboratory for connecting sets of genes to particular traits and understanding the molecular mechanisms that govern variation in dogs as well as humans and other mammals.

Not exact matches

In humans, other mammals, and many other animals that have been studied — such as fish, birds, ants, and fruit - flies — regular sleep is necessary for survival.

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.

There are three kinds of mammals: egg - laying monotremes such as the platypus, marsupials like kangaroos and opossums, and the majority — placental, or eutherian, mammals — including humans and about 4400 other mammal species.

The organism that causes toxoplasmosis is a parasite that uses cats as its primary host, but it can also infect humans and other mammals.

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

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

Blackshaw says scientists have known for a while that the SCN functions as a master clock to synchronize sleep and other so - called circadian rhythms in humans and other mammals.

Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.

«The nakedness of humans is a glaring difference between humans and other mammals,» says evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel of the University of Reading, U.K.. Although humans have about as many follicles as other primates, the hairs are fine, exposing the skin and creating an evolutionary enigma.

The other female mammals known to act as midwives to each other include common marmosets, elephants, bottle - nosed dolphins and, of course, humans.

The scientists also discovered genetic clues to the evolution of the giraffe's long neck and legs, which have the same number of bones as the neck and legs of humans and other mammals.

It will also offer necessary context for some of the particularities of being human, who behaved just like other mammals only a few thousand years ago and who still share most underlying basic behavioral characteristics such as hunger and pain.

As archaic humans, Neanderthals and other hominin species migrated out of Africa, what followed was a wave of size - biased extinction in mammals on all continents that intensified over time.

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.

Other mammals, including humans, also have a gene with nearly the same sequence and function as SIRT1.

But a few mammals such as bats, whales and elephants use complex and varied vocalizations that share some characteristics with human speech such as the ability to learn vocalizations from other members of their social group.

¿ - herpesviruses, which include the human oncogenic viruses Kaposi Sarcoma - associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV), are a family of large double - stranded DNA lymphotrophic viruses that are the causative agents of a variety of disorders, including lymphoproliferative diseases, lymphomas, as well as other nonlymphoid cancers in mammals.

Gammaherpesviruses, which include the human oncogenic viruses Kaposi Sarcoma - associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV), are a family of large double - stranded DNA lymphotrophic viruses that are the causative agents of a variety of disorders, including lymphoproliferative diseases, lymphomas, as well as other nonlymphoid cancers in mammals.

This happens not just in humans but all mammals — as well as insects, all other animals and even plants.

This happens not just in humans but in all mammals — as well as insects, all other animals and even plants.

Children will learn about the different stages of human life as well as the parts of the body and how humans are different to other animals and mammals.

It affects dogs, cats, and other mammals such as wolves, coyotes, foxes, sea lions, and in rare instances humans.

The reason for the thick consistency is that there is an enzyme missing that is in other mammals, such as dogs, cats and humans that can break the dead cells into a more liquid form.

As much as dogs and humans may have in common, from our lifestyles to our health, in other ways dogs are unique among mammalAs much as dogs and humans may have in common, from our lifestyles to our health, in other ways dogs are unique among mammalas dogs and humans may have in common, from our lifestyles to our health, in other ways dogs are unique among mammals.

These three individuals were charged with creating a list of dangerous wild animals, which are defined as «a mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian and aquatic animal, including a hybrid, that is dangerous to humans, other animals or the environment due to its inherent nature.»