Human Minds and Animal Stories: How Narratives Make Us Care About Other SpeciesWhat power do stories have to raise human consciousness about issues that concern other animals? We know all too well the range of immoral cruelty, exploitation, and anthropocentric heedlessness that afflicts so many ...
Converging evidence across mammalian species points to pregnancy as a remarkable period of neuroplasticity, revealing the brain’s ability to undergo adaptive, hormonally-driven neuroanatomical changes beyond adolescence13,14,15,20,21,24,25,26. Investigations that compare women prepregnancy and then again...
is taken up not with discussion of the cultural or political problems of the day, not heated debates about films we've just watched or books we've just finished reading, but plain and simple (1)___.Language is our greatest treasure as a species, and what do we (2)_ do with it?
I have already mentioned that the human species differs from other animal species because of its advanced neocortex which enable humans to create language, art, myth and culture, and to make plans and create a self-image as well as a worldview. I also mentioned differences in DNA between the...
Whereas the abilities discussed in the previous sections refer to variation among individuals within the human species, cognitive biases are tendencies that are common to the human species, which is to say variation among different species. Naturally, the effects of cognitive bias are also expected ...
Ageing changes can modify the male organs and steroid influences as hormonal activities linked with the typical testes functions thus, estrogen changes would reveal a lesser considered aspect of the human male reproductive system resulting in or accompanying other disorders, including prostatic cancer. ...
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and the introduction of invasive species) have been recorded, the true number is likely much larger. Here, by combining recorded extinctions with model estimates based on the completeness of the fossil record, we suggest that at least ~1300–1500 bird species (~12% of the total) have gone ...
There are many ways in which individuals communicate. Undoubtedly, at the core of human communication is speech. However, humans also communicate using gestures, body postures, and facial expressions. Whereas speech is uniquely human,gestural communicationis also present in other species of primates. ...
“The recognition by neuroscientists that the brain mechanisms(机制) causing pain, pleasure and fear are the same in humans and other mammals shows our similarity to other species and is extremely important,"said Tecumseh Fitch, a psychology lecturer at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. ...