In recent years, this theme has even been extended to non-human primates, such as chimpanzees.
But what exactly is the moral relevance of empathy and altruism in non-human animals?
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But, Dr Shultz said, overall, "non-human primates, apes included, are not very good at solving fairness problems".
"There's evidence that some non-human primates are averse to others receiving more than they receive, " he said.
Both the non-human apes and the human children tended to look where they thought the experimenter was looking.
But in looking at images of an eye, participants easily gauged the difference between human and non-human images.
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The non-human portion is your local corner of the emerging Internet of Things.
Facebook estimates that 2.4% of its active accounts are these non-human personal accounts.
Picard had offered himself up to save a non-human life-form, whose greatest wish, ironically, was to become an emotive human.
The most common method of producing antibodies has been to take non-human antibodies--from animals such as mice--and alter, or "humanize" them.
Emotional consumers, for instance, fail to take stock of their human and non-human resources, and to prioritize their needs and desires.
In recent years there has been increased scientific interest in whether non-human primates are able to understand the concept of fair play.
That information lives around two kinds of sources: human and non-human.
This is unlike other sound-making mechanisms found in other non-human primates.
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And, for the more pragmatic, the extent to which animals as non-human as nematodes can really be useful as medical models of humanity will also be established.
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His 31-length victory in the Belmont Stakes ranks as one of the finest displays of sporting perfection by any athlete -- human or non-human -- in the 20th century.
If the successes keep coming in this fashion, Ali et al had better watch their backs, for, human or non-human, we could be witnessing the greatest of all time.
The results showed that all the nose and skin images received relatively low aliveness ratings from the participants, regardless of whether the picture actually depicted human or non-human body parts.
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They have an unconventional approach and a pretty good success rate as well, that one non-human member, which is why we're at a stable tonight in West Hempstead, Long Island.
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This seems to also be true of non-human primates.
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So animal personalities look both reliable, and reliably non-human.
But the non-human apes paid the most attention to where the experimenter's head was pointing, in particular, looking up when the head was pointed up, no matter what the eyes were doing.
In the experiment, reported online in the Journal of Human Evolution, a human adult first attracted the attention of the non-human ape or the human child, and then looked up at the ceiling.
Intelligent consumers, for instance, carefully examine their economic situation, taking stock of their human and non-human resources, ranking and prioritizing their needs and desires the need to be satisfied first, second, and so on in order to derive the maximum return from their human and non-human resources, as it is taught in standard economic books.
The absolute limits of non-enhanced human athletic performance may well be set in stone.
Of itself, a wasp can be little more than an annoyance to a (non-allergic) human being.
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