Sentences with phrase «nonhuman species»

Greater legal rights for nonhuman species.

Some believe in the «micro-evolution» of nonhuman species while others accept evolution as part of a divine order.

In one recent encounter, she said, Fredrika and Mokolo had sex face - to - face, which is rare among nonhuman species.

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

But in fact, the science suggests that numerous nonhuman species do suffer from psychiatric symptoms.

The authors say it's one of the most complex and rapid patterns of cultural evolution across a region ever observed in a nonhuman species.

Nonhuman species can seem to comprehend procreation, but even apes lack the cognitive traits to truly understand

She has found other mental capacities in birds that rival or surpass those of any other nonhuman species and come uncannily close to abilities we thought were ours alone.

(I say «not others» because it is crucial that we not be acquainted with individuals which fill what is for us a relatively clear gap between humans and nonhuman species.)

Indeed, the plight of indigenous peoples and of the nonhuman species with whom we share the planet should touch our consciences as too high a price for us to be paying even in terms of immediate consequences.

Not exact matches

If, to the contrary, the difference between humans and some sub-humans were slight (if, for instance, humans were only slightly superior to nonhuman primates, so that human existence were a species belonging to what we now call the nonhuman animal world), it would not be clear that the appearance of humans represents the maximal importance of subhuman existence as such.

Even granting something like the teleological order I have asserted, however, some may doubt that this formulation adequately states our responsibilities to our natural habitat, especially responsibilities to the diversity of species in the nonhuman world and to individual animals, at least within species whose members exhibit the capacity to suffer.

Rivet popping on spaceship Earth consists of doing things that cause the extermination of populations of nonhuman organisms and even whole species.

Three or four spider species live in most North American homes, and they all tend to be found either tending their webs or hunting in nonhuman - infested areas.

They plan to apply the new model to species such as nonhuman primates and African elephants, for which a great deal of population data exists.

So although nonhuman primates laugh, human humor seems also to involve more specialized cognitive networks that are unshared by other species.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

Psychologist Robert Deaner of Grand Valley State University in Michigan scoured hundreds of cognition studies to pin down which nonhuman primate species is the smartest.

A retrovirus that naturally infects many nonhuman primate species can easily jump the species barrier to humans and does so frequently among bushmeat hunters in Africa, according to a study published in the 19 March issue of The Lancet.

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

The high degree of sequence relatedness within members of each species suggests that at least some adenoviral strains may be capable of infecting both nonhuman primates and humans.

This observation implies that TMAdV possesses an inherent capacity to cross the species barrier and infect both humans and nonhuman primates.

In one species, the black snub - nosed monkey (about 2,000 individuals are found in the wild), they identified several hypoxia - related genes that allowed them to thrive in the highest altitudes (a narrow region 3,400 - 4,500 meters above sea level in a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primate.

Alpha Genesis, Inc. provides numerous nonhuman primate biological products and materials, including serum, plasma, whole blood, PBMC, and tissue samples from a wide variety of research species.

Shultz, S. & Dunbar, R. I. M. Species differences in executive function correlate with hippocampus volume and neocortex ratio across nonhuman primates.

So few nonhuman animal species existed in the deforested, bulldozed, and poisoned planet, the London Zoo had truly become a kind of «ark» for all interconnected life — an ark, and a death row prison.

For the purposes of § 3.2 - 6570, the operative animal cruelty law, animal means any nonhuman vertebrate species including fish except those fish captured and killed or disposed of in a reasonable and customary manner.

Long - term species - specific studies of lateralization in nonhumans are required to determine if pawedness shifts over time or varies with context, experience and genetic predisposition.

In conjunction with the group show Between Species, UVP presents an evening of curated videos and panel talk exploring the idea of «the animal» and attempts to imagine and engage with nonhuman animals through visual technologies.

This misalignment, if you will, means that either chimpanzees (and gorillas, dolphins, whales — other creatures the NRP has in its sights) will need human agents, with all the dangers of projection of human needs and desires on to their nonhuman «clients», or that law itself would have to change into something... other, something capable of bridging species, a rather daunting proposition.