Sentences with phrase «other nonhuman»

And there are other nonhuman forces out there that are worth examining in the same way to help clarify what influences — human - caused or not — might be propelling short - term temperature trends in one direction or another.

Animals covered under this act are: Dogs, Cats, Monkeys (other nonhuman primate mammals), guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, and other warm - blooded animals that is intended for use in research, testing, or exhibition.

Cats and dogs can develop subclinical infections with these organisms but still pose a risk to livestock, other nonhuman animals, and humans, especially children, older persons, and immunocompromised individuals.»

Here, humans coexist with vampires, mummies, fairies, and other nonhuman entities.

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.

For decades, researchers assumed that chimps, like other nonhuman primates, weaned their young once the back teeth started coming in.

Wilhelms says the patent as granted includes not only the onco - mouse but other nonhuman mammals with added oncogenes.

Most research using monkeys, baboons, and other nonhuman primates in the United Kingdom produces results that justify the animal welfare costs, according to a comprehensive review made public today.

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.

Such manipulation of new materials is beyond even chimps and other nonhuman primates.

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.

This finding can not be explained by global constraint on the intron sequence, because interspecific comparisons with other nonhuman primates revealed phylogenetically informative sequence changes.

Breastfeeding is associated with a reduced risk of SIDS.37 — 39 Unless contraindicated, mothers should breastfeed exclusively or feed with expressed milk (ie, not offer any formula or other nonhuman milk - based supplements) for 6 months, in alignment with recommendations of the AAP.40

As we observe together, we'll also experiment with forms of movement and dance to communicate with plants and other nonhumans — imagining the body as a site for scientific inquiry.

Not exact matches

A paraphilia is a disorder that is characterized by recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies generally involving: nonhuman objects; the suffering or humiliation of oneself or one's partner (not merely simulated); or animals, children, or other nonconsenting persons.

This chilling thought adds a new importance to the images we use to characterize our relationship to others and to the nonhuman world.

If we are capable of extinguishing ourselves and most, if not all, other life, metaphors that support attitudes of distance from, and domination of, other human beings and nonhuman life must be recognized as dangerous.

We are part and parcel of the web of life and exist in interdependence with all other beings, both human and nonhuman.

It is an extension to others, both human and nonhuman, of that empathetic identification we normally feel toward our own personal pasts and futures.

Amid our self - structuring dependent origination, which in Zen is the very nature of the true self, we ought to respect as much as possible the capacities of others, both nonhuman and human, to originate dependently in their own self - structuring ways.

In so doing, we learn to feel the presence of others, nonhuman and human, as part of who and what we are.

His purposes for institutions are in this sense akin to his purposes; for other inanimate or nonhuman portions of the creation, They are: necessary conditions instrumental for the fulfillment of human aims and of the divine aims for human beings.

The functioning which it does actually exhibit is nothing especially exalted when compared to other beings, even a great many nonhuman beings.

Only after sentience is acquired can we even begin to compare fetuses to other beings who are not moral agents but who are moral patients: the comatose, nonhuman animals, etc..

Far too often in the past and far too frequently even today, thinkers have argued the other way on; they have assumed that human existence can be understood only in terms of the nonhuman.

This lack of interest in the subjective experience of nonhuman animals seems characteristic of other deep ecologists as well.

In chapters 9 to 16 our attention will be focused on problems of ethical responsibility — that is, on decisions concerning human relationships to the nonhuman world, to self, and to other persons.

Furthermore, according to William Dean, the empiricism of Whitehead's philosophy not only destroys the dualism of the subject and object, but also other traditional dualisms, such as those of spirit - matter and human - nonhuman, in a manner that even transcends Derrida's works (DP 8).

(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.)

Our nuclear knowledge brings to the surface a fundamental fact about human existence: we are part and parcel of the web of life and exist in interdependence with all other beings, both human and nonhuman.

Nonhuman creatures are merely props, having no value other than their value to us; intrinsic value resides in humans alone.

The second chapter is about the consequences of that understanding for living in our relationships with others, including nonhuman life.

We are nothing apart from what our moments of living contribute to future life, and this means to some or all of the following: our own future experiences; future experiences of other human beings, nonhuman animals, or plants; divine experience, this last contribution containing all the value whatsoever that our moments can have.

However, «The AAP Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Physicians, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

For the percentage of milk feedings given as breastmilk or by bottle, we first calculated the percentage of total milk feedings that were of the breast (BF %); expressed breastmilk (EBM %); or nonhuman milk (NHM %) including formula, cow's, or other milk at each survey (BF % + EBM % + NHM % = 100 %).

«This is a big step forward to getting what we are ultimately seeking: the right to bodily liberty for chimpanzees and other cognitively complex animals,» says Natalie Prosin, the executive director of the animal rights organization, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), that filed the case.

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

People who read the article describing the government as potentially unstable were more likely to agree that God, or some other type of nonhuman entity, is in control of the universe.

In a letter to the lawmakers, he emphasizes the importance of nonhuman primate research in tackling Ebola, cardiovascular disease, and other afflictions.

Because nonhumans have not produced Mona Lisas, Notre Dames, and other cultural symbols, they were thought to lack culture.

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.

The numbers tell the tale: «Approximately 834,000 rabbits, nonhuman primates, and other regulated animals were used in research last year, compared with more than 1.5 million in the early 1970s.

The scientists said they are currently working on analyses to model the ecological role that nonhuman primates play in maintaining the diversity of astroviruses, particularly in places where they share the environment with humans and other animals.

Ethologist Frans de Waal has offered several observations of apparent empathy among nonhuman primates in his 1996 book Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, but richer insights come from a series of studies published about 40 years ago, when standards for animal welfare were minimal.

Approximately 834,000 rabbits, nonhuman primates, and other regulated animals were used in research last year, compared with more than 1.5 million in the early 1970s.

Researchers plan to assess the new modified antigen against other candidates in advanced strep throat vaccine tests in nonhuman primates beginning later this year in Atlanta, Georgia, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.

Other issues that may be later resolved are the commitment to increased costs and longer waiting times when using nonhuman primates.

And in terms of some surgical procedures, implants, developing prosthetics, or other therapies, nonhuman primates can prove better suited than rodents.»

Other studies have shown that nonhumans can sense unfairness.

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