Sentences with phrase «from 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.

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Humans are the only mammals on the planet who suffer from post - partum depression and post - partum psychosis - we are also the only mammals on the planet who are drugged during birth, nurse by a clock, don't sleep with our babies, time our nursing sessions, supplement with formula, use pacifiers (and a myraid of other behaviors that disrupt ancient hormonal production during lactation).

Humans, cows, pigs, and other mammals are born with antibodies from their mothers that provide early protection before the young animals» immune system begins to recognize pathogens.

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.

Fences allow lions and other wildlife to survive on fragments of land on which it would otherwise be impossible to conserve large mammals because they keep big animals from coming into conflict with humans, livestock and agriculture.

The IGF1 protein is crucial for the growth of mammals, including mice and humans, so Ostrander's group and other collaborators began collecting DNA from additional breeds to see if they also shared the same gene variant.

A final wave of human migration, this time from across the Atlantic, brought with it cats, rats, goats, mongoose, and other introduced mammals.

Professor Heath said: «Wildlife everywhere capitalizes on waste from human activity, and discarded fish are food for a wide range of seabirds, marine mammals, seabed animals and other fish.

Humans and most other mammals, however, require a placenta that can draw nutrients appropriately from the mother's blood throughout an extended pregnancy.

Now protected from humans, elk and other mammals flourish near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, researchers say.

The weight - loss circuit is activated by combined signals from the worm versions of the neurotransmitters serotonin and adrenaline, and there are reasons to suspect that it exists in a similar form in humans and other mammals.

«From the preliminary results, we suspected that in most of our samples, DNA from other mammals was too abundant to detect small traces of human DNA,» says Viviane Slon, Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and first author of the stFrom the preliminary results, we suspected that in most of our samples, DNA from other mammals was too abundant to detect small traces of human DNA,» says Viviane Slon, Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and first author of the stfrom other mammals was too abundant to detect small traces of human DNA,» says Viviane Slon, Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and first author of the study.

Graur compared amino acid sequences in 91 proteins from humans, monkeys, rats, rabbits, and other mammals.

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.

Ralph Brinster, part of the team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia that first cultured sperm stem cells in the lab, has written that culturing stem cells from human sperm is not far off — humans and mice, like other mammals, he says, require similar growth factors.

Red tide toxins that end up in the food web can be transferred to other forms of life, from tiny zooplankton to birds, fish, aquatic mammals and humans.

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.

The man's lactose intolerance is the one thing that was not surprising, since a hunter - gatherer would not drink milk beyond infancy — just like other mammals and all modern humans with the exception of those who come from milk - drinking cultures, Carles Lalueza - Fox explained.

«From the preliminary results, we suspected that in most of our samples, DNA from other mammals was too abundant to detect small traces of human DNA,» Viviane Slon, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and first author of the study, said in the statemFrom the preliminary results, we suspected that in most of our samples, DNA from other mammals was too abundant to detect small traces of human DNA,» Viviane Slon, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and first author of the study, said in the statemfrom other mammals was too abundant to detect small traces of human DNA,» Viviane Slon, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and first author of the study, said in the statement.

By the end of the Pleistocene, when the last great ice age ebbed, other human ancestors were gone, humans had settled the Americas and long - range weapons like spears and arrows were common — and the average mass of mammals had fallen from nearly 100 kg (220 pounds) to less than eight.

George Q. Daley, a stem cell biologist at Boston Children's Hospital, said Dr. Niakan's study of human embryos was «critical because we know them to be quite different from embryos of mice» and other mammals studied in laboratories.

Humans and other mammals can run away from predators.

Because humans and other mammals are able to make their own DHA from other fatty acids, DHA deficiency isn't very common.

The two aspects of being human that set us apart from other mammals are metacognition and the deep desire to belong or feel felt.

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

Since dogs are in regular contact with their owners and other people, the illness could potentially spread from dogs to humans in the future, he suggested, given that it has already jumped from one species of mammal to another.

And then when you consider that (1) humans are a tiny percentage of the total animal biomass on Earth — probably well under 1 % — and that most animals emit more CO2 on a per - pound - of - body - weight than humans do (especially small mammals and birds, which can emit 6 times or more CO2 per pound of body weight than humans)-- you're now looking at SEVERAL HUNDRED BILLION TONS OF CO2 from animal reespiration alone — on top of all the other natural sources of CAnd then when you consider that (1) humans are a tiny percentage of the total animal biomass on Earth — probably well under 1 % — and that most animals emit more CO2 on a per - pound - of - body - weight than humans do (especially small mammals and birds, which can emit 6 times or more CO2 per pound of body weight than humans)-- you're now looking at SEVERAL HUNDRED BILLION TONS OF CO2 from animal reespiration alone — on top of all the other natural sources of Cand that most animals emit more CO2 on a per - pound - of - body - weight than humans do (especially small mammals and birds, which can emit 6 times or more CO2 per pound of body weight than humans)-- you're now looking at SEVERAL HUNDRED BILLION TONS OF CO2 from animal reespiration alone — on top of all the other natural sources of Cand birds, which can emit 6 times or more CO2 per pound of body weight than humans)-- you're now looking at SEVERAL HUNDRED BILLION TONS OF CO2 from animal reespiration alone — on top of all the other natural sources of CO2.

It's responsible for higher - order thinking, emotional regulation, planning, decision - making, and all the other wonderful things that make our species different from all other mammals; it's what makes us human.