Sentences with phrase «of animals including humans»

Although it has been previously thought that the virus can not be passed to other species of animals including humans, there have been reports of cats in shelters suffering from the virus.

Not exact matches

He outlines three forms of consciousness: the simple consciousness of animals and humans; the self - consciousness of humans, which includes reason and imagination; and cosmic consciousness, which transcends factual understanding.

What it does: This microbe is extremely versatile and can live in a wide range of environments, including soil, water, animals, plants, sewage, and hospitals in addition to humans.

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

Boston Dynamics has produced a number of robots that mimic human and animal movement, including Atlas, a humanoid model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.

Prior to launching Pillar, Cindy worked on searches for a number of high profile clients including Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Emeril Lagasse Foundation, U.S. Naval War College, Nantucket Athenaeum, Kellogg School of Management, Institute of Human Virology, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and World Animal Protection.

That includes the human animal at every stage of development, beginning in utero.

Animals including humans are to a variable degree capable of bonding to other beings.

This occurs in all social groups of animals, humans included..

if its the human species... we are but a single branch of primates in the great ape family... Like gorillas and orangutans — we are the product of an evolutionary chain that included compet itors like Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal species.

Whatever is self - aware or able to value its own life (for example) is designated as a «person,» even if it is an animal, while people lacking these attributes are denigrated as human «non-persons» — an invidious category that includes all of the unborn, as well as (for many bioethics practitioners) infants and those with profound cognitive disabilities.

In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas does not mean to say that natural law is shared by all animals including human beings» the natural law, as the «participation of the eternal law in the rational creature,» pertains only to human beings (I - II, 91.2)» but that natural law includes natural inclinations shared by other animals, «such as sexual intercourse, education of offspring, and so forth.»

But one way or another all advocates of animal rights, process thinkers included, lament the fact that so many domesticated animals can and do suffer unnecessarily at the hands of humans.

It is also extremely common, living in the intestines of many animals, including humans.

Aldo Leopold and J. Baird Callicott project the possibility and the desirability of extending the realm of moral consideration beyond the human community to include not only warm - blooded creatures, not only animals who can feel pain, but all living things and their systems and habitats (SCA 237 - 39, IDLE 76 - 94).

The public consensus veers between sympathy for animal rights — although it is only some animals that are included, you do no hear much about the «rights» of insects and spiders, for example — and uncertainty about the moral boundaries surrounding human life and death — although, of course, outright murder is still regarded as a crime.

Out of the Earth ~ Natural Raw Diet for Dogs Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Consumers purchase organic foods for different reasons, including concerns about the effects of conventional farming practices on the environment, human health, and animal welfare.

In New Westminster's proclamation, explaining the decision to adopt a Meatless Monday, mayor Jonathan Coté wrote: «Overconsumption of meat, dairy and eggs is associated with many major environmental problems, including climate change, worsened human health outcomes and animal welfare concerns.»

The lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.

Further promoted advantages and promises by the industry include that RR crops create more yield than conventional crops, decrease farmers input costs by reducing the amount of herbicides sprayed and are safe for humans, animals and the environment.

Researchers writing in the Archives of Women's Mental Health, reviewed 10 medical studies including four with humans and six on animals.

It is a normal instinctual reaction in animals, including humans of all ages, and does not become a disorder unless it is interfered with and suppressed.

The Book of Baths, by Karen Gray Ruelle Lively little paper cutouts show different animals — including humans — in the bath: a pig, a mouse, a baby, etc..

The reason for this seems to be insulin - like growth factor (IGF), a protein that is released by the liver of all animals (humans included) in response to growth hormone.

«Most baby animals and human babies start out by drinking their mothers» milk,» the television host says before showing a montage of mammals nursing their babies — including human mamas breastfeeding and bottle - feeding their little ones.

When relating the results of animal studies to human infants, important factors to consider include the choice of animal species for study, the stage of development (eg, prenatal or postnatal), and the duration and severity of deficiency or excessive intake.

The bill includes the creation of human - animals embryos for research as well as reforms that would allow lesbian couples and single women to access IVF.

The same domineering institutions, ideologies, and sensibilities that rationalize the domination of human by human also rationalize the domination of nature, including non-human animals.

The gifts included luxury goods from across the empire, artifacts from earlier civilizations and the remains of thousands of humans and animals — many sacrificed atop the pyramid during lavish ceremonies.

Humans kill large carnivores — a category of animals that includes wolves, bears, lions, tigers and pumas — at more than nine times their mortality rate in the wild.

Several species of mammal, including mice, rats and dogs, are able to sniff out disease in humans and other animals.

One of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director of the Geology and Paleontology Department of the National Museum and Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits of animal bones, and a single human molar.

Obesity in animals, including humans, is not dependent on the amount of body weight, but on the amount of body fat - specifically adipose tissue.

In a first for any animal, including humans, four cows injected with a type of HIV protein rapidly produced powerful antibodies against the virus, researchers report.

The team discovered that a compound called glutathione — found in animal and plant tissues, including those of worms and humans — plays a very different role in redox than originally thought.

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.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

Researchers are not sure what is causing the peculiar behaviors but Munday suspects that elevated CO2 levels interfere with a neurotransmitter called GABA, which plays a key role in modulating activity in the brain and nervous system of virtually all animals, including humans.

These include wildlife, domestic animals and humans — mostly children — who are commonly affected by schistosomiasis in tropical parts of the world.

Hox genes are found in all animals, including humans, and they control the development of their body plans.

The U.N. declaration calls for action on multiple fronts, including slashing the use of antibiotics to promote growth in farm animals, limiting their use among humans to only when they are truly necessary and ramping up education about these issues.

These include the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and foods grown with pesticides, the use of animals in research, whether climate change is mostly due to human activity, and whether humans have evolved over time.

The journal provides cutting - edge research including results from animal models that are likely to apply to patients, studies in human tissue that provide new information about therapies or disease, and innovative reports of drug discovery and development.

Zoologist Ryan charms readers with his account of attraction in the animal kingdom, including humans.

Scientists have now discovered that these viruses have integrated themselves into the DNA of a wide range of animals, including humans, zebrafish, and other vertebrates.

Games used for the study included Prisoner's Dilemma, Stag Hunt and Battle of Sexes, which are often used in game theory - the science of logical decision making in humans, animals, and computers.

«Our vision is to apply the same approach but rapidly screen non-synthetic, biological or «natural» molecules cloned from human or other genomes, including those of plants, animals and microbes,» he said.

Most animals, including humans, have two copies of their genome — the full set of instructions needed to make every cell, tissue, and organ in the body.