Sentences with phrase «of humans and other animals»

The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that gives priority to bad news.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is apparently intelligent behaviour by machines, rather than the natural intelligence (NI) of humans and other animals.
Koch also presents a selection of the canonical «Motion Studies» of humans and other animals made in Palo Alto in the 1880s by Eadweard Muybridge (1830 - 1904).
In another 2013 study published in Animal Cognition journal, a group of dogs was able to pick out the faces of other dogs, regardless of the breed, among the faces of humans and other animals.
So it doesn't surprise me at all that street dogs in this type of environment would have a strong tendency to be fearful of humans and other animals.
Adding to this complicated list is the fact that cats often try to hide pain, especially in the presence of humans and other animals.9 Although this assists with their survival in the wild, pain - masking behavior is a hindrance to proper treatment, if any is provided at all.
A 2013 study published in the journal Animal Cognition concluded that dogs could identify images of other dogs among pictures of humans and other animals, using their visual sense alone.
This course will survey current understanding of the social behavior and decision making of humans and other animals, from psychological, economic, and ethological perspective; the neurobiology of friendship, social connection, and cooperation; the neurobiology of theory of mind and strategic behavior; disorders affecting social decision making and their biological basis; and applications of social neuroscience to business, including marketing, management and organizational design, leadership and team - building, negotiation, and trading.
Another area where Smith made an impact has been in the care of research animals, which are integral to the advancement of research that benefits the health of both humans and other animals.
The widespread occurrence of mercury (Hg) in the environment and, especially in fish has been highlighted because of the harmful effects of mercury compounds on the health of humans and other animals.
In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he argued that there is continuity between the emotional lives of humans and other animals.
Rothschild hasn't been able to identify the dinosaur species, but the growths resemble benign tumors called hemangiomas found today in the bones of humans and other animals.
But only one of them — Serratia marcescens, which resides in the guts of humans and other animals as well as in soil and water — is capable of causing whitepox in healthy coral samples, the team reports.
Comparing anatomy or even genomes of humans and other animals reveals little about the genetic and developmental changes that sent our brains down such a different path.
Billions of microbial cells live in the guts of humans and other animals.
Elephants and whales have bigger brains, so comparing anatomy or even genomes of humans and other animals reveals little about the genetic and developmental changes that sent our brains down such a different path.
That's according to research published in the journal Anthrozoos, in which one studies about the interactions of humans and other animals.
This book is perfect for biology students and teachers, as well as anybody interested in the inner workings of humans and other animals.
In fact, most if not all of the relevant evidence, as the previous example illustrated, counts against the idea that physics can in principle provide a complete account of the physical world, especially given the existence of human and other animals in it.
Each artist connects to the unconscious through highly allusive depictions of human and other animal bodies.

Not exact matches

The lengthy research cited on HVMN's website and others are primarily animal studies, rather than human studies, and primarily test one of two compounds in combination, rather than the half - dozen contained in a product like SPRINT.
By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ — from a human patient and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on animals and proceed to human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.
«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.
One biological distinction between humans and other animals is a surfeit of the white matter inside our skulls called myelin.
Whereas many animal charities draw funds primarily from within the movement (e.g., from other animal advocates and animal charities), GFI is seeking to reach potential donors whose primary interests are in environmental protection, the sustainability of the global food system, and human health.
Yet we are still human beings, and one of the things that separates us from other animals is that we make moral judgments.
We would expect that since Humans are created in the image of God, they would be unique and clearly distinguishable from other animals.
If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.
There actually is a lot of research out there dealing with morality in humans and in other animals.
Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity of wild animals in zoos, and in pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction of members of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.
We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.
Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.
The human body alone is to complex to be a random act of any set of molecules; and that's not counting the billions of other species of animals, plants, and insects.
That said: «But god did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evil.
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.
The human body comes about from the seed and egg of parents in common with other animals, but the soul is created immediately by God's loving command and wise, eternal will.
And it's hard enough to cope with human suffering without worrying about the suffering of other animals.
That's not quite right and in fact you miss one of the biggest differences in the human brain compared to other animals.
For a Whiteheadian it is more natural and correct to speak of the relation as between human beings and «other» animals; for humanity is one species of animals.
There is no human being apart from relations with other people, with other animals, and with the whole of creation.
The authors discuss the evolution of the human brain, the importance of language, and compare human intelligence to that found in other animals.
They share some useful thoughts on a range of issues, in particular regarding human uniqueness in comparison with other animals, and the neuroscience of religiousness.
Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.
Much of the discussion of the first directive has concentrated on the issue of non-violence, but it also says that «the lives of animals and plants... deserve protection, preservation and care».18 The church's record on this issue has been subject to criticism, and certainly modern European society has tended to exploit the natural world and to emphasize the gap between human and other forms of life.
That type of dog would try to hump pretty much anything, other dogs of either se.x, a sofa cushion, stuffed plush animals and of course human legs.
It needs to be stated first that human beings are highly complex psycho - physical organisms with literally thousands of energy events interacting with each other and with and under the dominance of an «organizing center of experience» (the brain), also present in animals with central nervous systems.
Any scientist on earth knows that the overwhelming body of evidence points towards h om os exu ality, hete ros exuality, and bis exu ality as normally occurring phenomenon within the spectrum of innate human (and hundreds of other animals) se x ual development.
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.»
it is the last remaining vestige of the Roman games in which humans and animals were set upon each other to satisfy the blood lust of the crowd.»
When the image of God entered into the species which is humankind, that species was ordained to find its order on a plane other than the animal, and because of the presence of that divine image, dominance on the human plane is not a natural order but a disorder.
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