Sentences with phrase «humans and other mammals for»

Siegel has studied sleep in humans and other mammals for 40 years.

It has been sustaining the lives of humans and other mammals for thousands of years.

Not exact matches

By nature, humans are born and have evolved to be communal beings — for the most part — interested in the survival of themselves foremost, but also to a large degree of other beings (and other mammals) around them.

For many reasons... some of the important ones include the need for your baby to keep up your milk supply and the need for your baby to get cuddles and comfort (human babies are born very prematurely compared to other mammalFor many reasons... some of the important ones include the need for your baby to keep up your milk supply and the need for your baby to get cuddles and comfort (human babies are born very prematurely compared to other mammalfor your baby to keep up your milk supply and the need for your baby to get cuddles and comfort (human babies are born very prematurely compared to other mammalfor your baby to get cuddles and comfort (human babies are born very prematurely compared to other mammals).

In Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers, Mohrbacher and Kendall - Tackett explain that human babies are born at less than 50 % of adult brain growth, while most other mammals are born with about 80 %.

It is found in humans, goats, and other mammals where it is produced by the mother for two days following birth.

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.

Nature or the creator wouldn't plan for breastmilk to continue on in humans and all other mammals after solids begin if there were no advantage to it.

An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

Diane Dickel is the lead author of Nature Methods paper describing a new technique for identifying gene enhancers in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

While the same exact mechanisms are unlikely to be at work in humans, Dr Gilestro thinks that a lot of what they observe in fruit flies is applicable to higher animals: «Sleep is a fundamental process for all animals, and many of the results the community has obtained with fruit flies have been replicated in other animals, including mammals and humans.

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.

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.

Around the same time, another psychiatrist, John Bowlby, penned his now - canon observations about the central importance of attachment for the social and psychological development of young humans, reminding us that we are just another part of a chain of mammals that depend on the care of others for survival.

In the wake of Zipursky's discovery, scientists are beginning to search for analogous identity proteins in humans and other 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.

To identify genetic changes likely to be responsible for the giraffe's unique characteristics, including sprints that can reach 37 miles per hour (60 km / h), Cavener and Agaba compared the gene - coding sequences of the giraffe and the okapi to more than forty other mammals including the cow, sheep, goat, camel, and human.

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.

A new study shows that the time it takes for humans and all other mammals to start walking fits closely with the size of their brains.

(Elephant protein sequences in present databases are incomplete, so other matches for the mastodon turned up among more distantly related mammals, including dogs, cows, mice, and humans.)

Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas, published work in The Journal of Biological Chemistry comparing the oxygen carrying proteins of whales, humans, and other deep - diving mammals and found that the whales have an ultrastable version, allowing them to stay submerged for long periods of time.

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

He, Murphy, and their colleagues first looked for matches to 197,522 pieces of human genes in a variety of other mammals.

But, relative to body size, primates have much larger brains than any other animals, and we humans, not surprisingly, have the biggest brains of all — about six times larger than you would expect for a mammal of our size.

This means the pathway for immune protection in the multi-cellular slug is similar to that seen in humans and other mammals.

Trying to recreate the process in a lab for humans and other mammals has led to many failures; sperm development appeared to be dependent on unique conditions in the testes.

But another sequence, the gene's so - called unidentified domain (UD), appears to have changed extremely rapidly in humans — about seven times faster than it did in other mammals — and shows signs of being positively selected for in evolution.

«We hypothesized that this might explain why laboratory mice, while paramount for understanding basic biological phenomena, are limited in their predictive utility for modeling complex diseases of humans and other free - living mammals,» said Rosshart.

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.

[128] In making the case for common descent, he included evidence of homologies between humans and other mammals.

One award is for research in genetics of humans and other mammals, and one award is for research in genetics of other model organisms.

For example, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is a vitamin for anthropoid primates, humans, guinea pigs and bats, but not for other mammaFor example, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is a vitamin for anthropoid primates, humans, guinea pigs and bats, but not for other mammafor anthropoid primates, humans, guinea pigs and bats, but not for other mammafor other mammals.

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.

Dr. Marc Bekoff — professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-founder (with primatologist Jane Goodall) of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — argues that the same brain mechanisms that control moral behavior in humans also control such behavior in other mammals.

They are considered very safe for dogs, cats and humans, although it should not be used on rabbits, ferrets or other small mammals.

«And while humans are the species most responsible for transforming oxygen into complaints, it's important to note that other animal life, including mammals, birds, and reptiles, also convert massive amounts of O2 into displeased growls and screeches about their habitats and food sources.&raqAnd while humans are the species most responsible for transforming oxygen into complaints, it's important to note that other animal life, including mammals, birds, and reptiles, also convert massive amounts of O2 into displeased growls and screeches about their habitats and food sources.&raqand reptiles, also convert massive amounts of O2 into displeased growls and screeches about their habitats and food sources.&raqand screeches about their habitats and food sources.&raqand food sources.»

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.