Sentences with phrase «other lesser animals»

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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.

It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»

Nothing like being called a depraved animal, a rat, scum, garbage, less than human or any of the other names that atheists get called on a regular basis, not to mention no threats of eternal torture.

Other, rather similar but not identical patterns are individuals of the species Homo sapiens, a great multitude of less similar patterns are representatives of other animal and plant speOther, rather similar but not identical patterns are individuals of the species Homo sapiens, a great multitude of less similar patterns are representatives of other animal and plant speother animal and plant species.

As reason sets human beings apart from all other animals, it seems that our rational nature can not be explained by evolution alone, for we do not find stages of lesser reflective selfconsciousness before the human species but evolution requires only gradual changes at a time.

In totemism, a particular animal or (less often) some other natural phenomenon or artifact is given a special role as the ancestral being around which the social unit's life is structured.

This modification of materialist physicalism provides one of the elements necessary to allow for freedom in human beings (and, to a lesser extent, other animals).

Human psychology differs greatly, to be sure, not only because we have much less access to the psyches of other animals, but also because their mentality is so much less developed, so that they — at least most of them — seem incapable of entertaining norms as such, The difference is, nevertheless, one of degree, not of kind.

For example, if man were defined as essentially a rational animal, rationality could not admit of degrees, and «more» of it would not constitute a norm or an ideal, without entailing that some human beings are less «human» than others.

The other claim, that trapping removes immune adult animals causing a reproductive spike of weaker and less immune animals, [112] also flies in the face of their complaint that trapping is indiscriminate.

Sometimes that means LESS of 1 animal to make room for more of the other.

As invertebrates, crickets also have a much less developed nervous system than other animals.

Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.

The purpose of the challenge was to inspire other people to work towards a future where less meat is eaten, she says, «where the animals, planet and people are respected and live in balance.

Cargill, one of the largest global agricultural companies, has joined Bill Gates and other business giants to invest in a nascent technology to make meat from self - producing animal cells amid rising consumer demand for protein that's less reliant on feed, land and water.

In terms of animal welfare, halal slaughter of animals within Australia is generally no more or less cruel than any other form of commercial slaughter in this country.

Does your adolescent seem to choose meat, fish and other animal products less often?

Tidying Up Cupboard Monster --(or other less scary animal)-- Pretend there is a very hungry monster living in your cupboard / draw that needs to be fed with the right things, says Jessica.

When flying, take your child to the bathroom at the airport before you board the plane, and bring along familiar stuffed animals or other favorite objects that may make public or hotel bathrooms less frightening.

Or try gradually filling his cup with less liquid at night, keeping him more occupied in activities before bed, and taking longer and longer to refill his cup when he asks by distracting him with other comforting bedtime items (e.g., special stuffed animal, blankie, or cold teething toy).

While some anti hunting groups claimed that a hunting ban would save lives, other ban supporters knew that more animals would be shot or snared, probably by those who were less experienced.

In many cases, they pursue less intensive and more traditional farming practices which are better for animal welfare and in other cases, their production processes are already informally regulated by minimum requirements set down by retailers in countries like the UK.

It's laudable for Prince William to campaign to protect these endangered animals — at stake is nothing less than the survival of the African and Asian elephants — but his sincerity would ring a lot more true if he showed the same respect for other animals, instead of shooting and killing them without a second thought.

Dr. Rob Ostfeld, a cardiologist at Montefiore says eating more plants and eating less animal products is the best way to prevent heart disease and other diet - related illnesses.

Harsh soda lakes are caustic to most other animals, but these harsh environments provide safe haven — and breeding grounds — for lesser flamingos.

Far from staying put, RNA — the less famous cousin of DNA — can roam far afield, carrying information to other cells in the body and even to other animals

The crows responded less strongly to other details of a person's dress, such as the presence of a hat or a coloured armband (Animal Behaviour, DOI: 10.1016 / j.anbehav.2009.12.022).

Many cosmetics companies swore off the Draize Test as a result in intervening years, though other similar albeit less draconian forms of animal tests remain prevalent throughout the cosmetics and personal care products industry.

NAVS maintains that not only is animal testing of any kind inhumane, but it's also more expensive and less reliable than other methods which do not rely on inflicting pain and suffering on rabbits and other furry friends.

Detecting Arc inside a neuron, in other words, shows that a memory had just been activated inside it less than five minutes before the animal's death.

Surprisingly, the animals with ASD gene mutations only in peripheral sensory neurons showed heightened anxiety and interacted less with other mice.

Like many other animals, the calls of the infants were both shorter and less structured than those of the adults.

In general, they found that an animal's skull and other fleshy structures act as a shield, blunting the effects of a blast wave: The thicker these structures are, the less vulnerable an animal is to injury.

As we continue to expand our knowledge of animals, using other species for such purposes becomes more, not less, of an issue.

If one or more of the track sets appears less crisply outlined than the others, that means the soil conditions under which the tracks were made varied — and therefore that a significant time interval passed between the animals» journeys.

When Ellington and other researchers put a variety of bugs in wind tunnels, however, the conventional lift they measured was never more than half of what was required to lift the weight of the animal, and often less than a third.

While those individuals were overall less likely than others to support killing animals, the death prime still had the same effect on them.

However, it and other animal groups were less happy with other aspects of the changed directive, especially moves to allow the reuse of animals and the use of nonhuman primates in experiments not directly linked to life - threatening or debilitating diseases.

For a long time, the prevailing idea was that parasites and pathogens evolve to target a particular host and as they get better at infecting a specific animal or plant, they become less effective at infecting other organisms.

His adviser at the time, animal genomicist Martien Groenen of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, had sequenced these genomes and had gathered additional, albeit less complete, genetic data from 600 other wild and domesticated pigs as part of another study.

In addition, the treatment process appeared to convert a less harmful form of estrogen into one with greater potential for disrupting the function of animals» endocrine systems, which produce hormones that regulate growth, reproduction and other biological functions.

Others are less optimistic about the fate of creatures that have a dearth of animal magnetism.

Yet neuroscientist Gregory Berns's What It's Like to be a Dog, and other adventures in animal neuroscience (Basic Books) reveals that our understanding of why dogs behave the way they do is far less intuitive than we might imagine.

«In less than a year, our group and others have demonstrated that multiple vaccine platforms can provide robust protection against Zika virus challenge in animal models.

But many in the field will be waiting for the next steps: testing whether the resulting mouse pups are genetically normal, trying out the technique in other animals, and using other and less controversial types of cells — such as stem cells that can be extracted and cryopreserved from adult testicular tissue — as the starting point.

Rather than the psittaci strain that's common in other animals, koalas are usually infected with C. pecorum, which shares a DNA homology, or similarity, of less than 10 percent with the human strain.

«Some animals might have been particularly vulnerable to climate change because of their biology and others less so.

But each day, recipients of two of the antighrelin vaccines gained less than a third of the weight put on by the other animals, the team reports online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

An immune reaction is less likely in the eye than in other sites in the body, and animal studies have suggested the RPE treatment should be safe.

Others say we'll use fewer animals because overall the studies will be less wasteful.