Sentences with word «nonhuman»

Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) are the most northerly species of nonhuman primates in the world, and have adapted to extremely cold winters.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is about to take a closer look at the use of nonhuman primates in all federally funded U.S. research labs.

Eventually, these defenders conceded that evolutionary roots of certain cherished human cognitive abilities could indeed be found in nonhuman animals, but only in large - brained mammals, particularly in apes.

Project lawyer Steven Wise told Reuters that Fahey's opinion «could be a historical turning point in the struggle to obtain legal rights for nonhuman animals in the United States.»

At Pace, Cassuto recent hosted and introduced a highly relevant lecture by Steven M. Wise, a legal scholar focused on animals and rights, titled «Nonhuman Rights to Personhood.»

The experienced and caring staff at AGI is dedicated to conducting humane research with nonhuman primates to advance knowledge in primate biology and to address human health concerns.

We used a 40 ° quadrupedal orientation for nonhuman primates with an included ± 10 ° in sensitivity analyses to account for variation.

In particular one does not sense a continuity between Dasein and the world of nonhuman life.

The chimps» actions, she would later report, set them apart from other nonhuman animals — and they may reveal the evolutionary origins of how we came to master fire.

Researchers could reduce experiments on nonhuman primates by studying data that have already been collected to answer new questions, says David O'Connor, a pathologist at the University of Wisconsin — Madison.

With odds like that, does it make sense to use CRISPR to create countless new varieties of nonhuman species?

One of her ongoing interests concerns the ways that humans represent and act upon the animal world, and the autonomy of nonhuman creatures in spite of these attempts to enculturate them.

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery.

Alpha Genesis ® Inc. (AGI) maintains AAALAC accredited research facilities that provide a complete roster of research products and services, including Nonhuman Primates for Biomedical Research, Contract Research and Consultation, Primate Housing and CDC Quarantine, and Biological Products and Materials.

Science has learned a great deal about complex social behavior by studying nonhuman mammals and primates, but parrots might have something to teach too.

Says coordinator Mary Anne Anselmino, «The children have established relationships with many nonhuman beings that share their garden.»

Nunez calls on researchers to become more precise with their terms and suggests that it could be productive to investigate «what seems to be nearly universal in human cultures and in many nonhuman animals too: a «quantical» ability and not a numerical one.»

Thus, the policing as a conflict management mechanism seen among nonhuman primates might be a precursor for large - scale «police forces» that maintain normative behaviour in large - scale human societies.

There is this empirical reason for being concerned about nonhuman lives.

We have seen that research in nonhuman experience corroborates Whitehead's epistemological scheme in which perception takes the two forms of causal efficacy and presentational immediacy, propositions and concepts are primarily nonlinguistic, feeling is the dominant mode of world - and self - disclosure, and animals experience both morally and aesthetically.

Some proponents of the land ethic — Callicott, for example — are suspicious of ethical preoccupations with individual nonhuman creatures.

A great deal of human activity today is destructive of the life and relations of nonhuman creation.

Participants who battled what they perceived as human - looking characters in the game were more likely to have aggressive thoughts and words than those who had shot down monstrous nonhuman characters.

There are currently no vaccines or drugs approved for human use and no post-exposure treatment that has completely protected nonhuman primates against MARV - Angola, the most deadly Marburg viral strain, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent.

CARMICHAEL REPLIES: Vaccinating animals is an intriguing idea and one that is clearly more applicable for vector - borne diseases with nonhuman reservoirs (for example, vaccinating dogs to control both canine and human visceral leishmaniasis transmission).

Respect for the integrity of creation entails the recognition that all living beings, humans and nonhumans alike, are neighbors.

In fact, here is a wacky fact that might make you feel completely gross: Our bodies are inhabited by 3 to 10 times as many nonhuman cells as human cells.

Human beings and nonhuman apes inhabit neighboring branches on the tree of life, but there are differences.

only nonhuman intervention can provide the truly equal opportunity thinning of the herd that future generations deserve if the human species is to survive and flourish on planet earth.

The opposition to the exploitation of all women should include nonhuman female animals.

Survival in infected nonhuman primates was dose - dependent, with survival rates of 0 %, 30 %, 59 %, 87 %, 100 %, and 100 % among monkeys treated with AVI - 7288 at a dose of 0 mg, 3.75 mg, 7.5 mg, 15 mg, 20 mg, and 30 mg per kilogram of body weight, respectively.

We generally throw asparagus and other vegetables into the «healthy» category, but when we have to find ways to treat nonhuman animals, all bets are off.

Also the view that nonhuman things have their value only in relation to human beings is false.

In a study published online today in Current Biology, researchers set up a simple experiment to see if nonhuman primates, like people, follow the masses.

Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to make an application of Whitehead's system to recent findings concerning nonhuman experience, in particular primate experience.

«Making this data available to the entire world will help give nonhuman great apes in the U.S. the individuality they deserve and will challenge those who currently believe they are entitled to own, abuse or otherwise oppress these individuals,» according to the GAP Web site.

For instance, corporate decision - makers frequent1y devise plans that damage or devastate human and nonhuman communities, without themselves having to live with the results.

Within this constellation of works, a postulate emerges: the human figure is no longer defined by stable boundaries, but is rather embedded in a network of fluctuating nonhuman parts.

In fact, this may already be the case with two nonhuman versions of oligosaccharides (touted for their «prebiotic» benefits) that have been added to certain infant formulas in recent years: fructooligosaccharides (FOS), isolated from plants, and galacto - oligosaccharides (GOS), synthesized from bovine lactose.