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单词 non-human
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Definition of non-human in English:

non-human

adjective
  • Not human.

    non-human material objects
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This novel vaccine induces strong cellular and antibody immune responses in animal models, including non-human primates.
    • Yet others are more abstract questions concerning the value and moral standing of the natural environment and its nonhuman components.
    • The technique, she believes, can even work on nonhuman species.
    • The Scottish Football Association confirmed that there was nothing in the international rule book to preclude non-human players from participating in top-level matches.
    • Humans and other species have engaged in a complex dance in which genes in non-human species, along with a variety of other human and natural forces, have played roles.
    • This ethic is grounded in my speciesism - my preference for reducing human suffering, even at the expense of non-human life-forms.
    • The point, of course, is that these people are wrong in their analysis of the relationship between human beings and non-human animals, not that they're unpleasant.
    • A common answer is to say that objects that are clearly human have rights, whereas non-human objects do not.
    • Also many more genes have been sequenced and functionally characterized for the mouse than for any other nonhuman mammal.
    • It calls on us to see each other and the nonhuman realm not as means to fulfill our self-interested ends, but as ends in themselves.
    • Scientific information receives far greater emphasis than does the subject of human interaction with the nonhuman natural world.
    • And he goes on to ask, ‘what price will human nature pay for these non-human artifices?’
    • Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often-fatal disease that affects humans and non-human primates, such as monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees.
    • The non-human section of the animal kingdom is often so much more interesting than the mixed up messed up human one.
    • They also have educational value to us; they can teach us how to relate to nonhuman nature and how to develop as fully human beings.
    • Human curiosity about nonhuman animals takes many forms.
    • Although nonhuman animals can develop highly sophisticated systems of social security, this isn't always the case.
    • Crow believes the authors of these papers want to find precursors of language in nonhuman primates to support a theory of graduated evolution.
    • It was a perverted and bizarre concoction of human and non-human noises.
    • Arguments about nonhuman consciousness range from claims of levels comparable to humans to refutation of any need to study such phenomena.
    • What ethically significant feature can there be that all human beings but no nonhuman animals possess?
    • The rights I would accord non-human animals are the rights not to be killed by humans - except unwittingly or in self-defence.
    • Furthermore, it is also possible to distinguish between a human and a non-human face, even if the difference between them cannot be reduced to a formula.
    • We need to weave more elements of nonhuman nature into our urban and suburban worlds.
    • I long for the day when compassion for non-human animals and the environment will outweigh the human ego and lust for money.
    • His theory was that animals were the ‘slaves of man’ and he spoke of the ‘tyranny of humans over non-human animals.’
    • All religions believe that human ethics should be derived from a supernatural, non-human source.
    • In many symbolizations, the top point represents either the human head or a non-human Spirit.
    • What are our responsibilities toward the nonhuman world?
    • Some of the richest cultural variation, in nonhuman species, has been observed in chimpanzee populations.
    • With nonhuman subjects, researchers can insert electrodes and record the firing of individual neurons.
    • Why does the non-human animal deserve better than the human animal?
    • If we shift the focus from human to non-human bodies, new topics, perspectives, and concerns come into view.
    • At the April 26th meeting, NIH agreed that such experiments might be pursued in animals, including non-human primates.
    • From what is known, the six figures are nonhuman creatures with extraordinary, but evil powers.
    • Singing evolved independently at least four times among nonhuman primates, contends Geissmann.
    • One looks toward the social behavior of nonhuman animals.
    • Half a century later many of these behaviors persist and are the subject of studies exploring nonhuman primate culture.
    • Thomas will distinguish acts of a man from human acts, the former being activities truly found in human agents but also found in other non-human agents too.
    • Thus, it may be worth developing these physiological methods to assess the level of vigilance in nonhuman organisms.
    Synonyms
    non-mortal, monstrous, devilish, demonic, demoniac, ghostly
noun
  • A creature that is not a human being.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Everybody, save for the non-humans, had fallen silent.
    • According to Latour, social interactions are actively localised by objects, framed by associations between humans and non-humans.
    • She was unsure about who took care of non-humans.
    • Certainly this would include humans as well as non-humans, and for this reason, I (and many animal rights activists) fully support and champion the promotion of human rights.
    • It's not our planet, and non-humans are also not ours.
    • The non-humans are surprisingly life-like while the humans still retain the slightly awkward look of something designed on a computer.
    • Like in non-humans, lying by humans is rooted in the subconscious.
    • These groups ensure that non-humans and humans are part of the same moral domain.
    • The second part of the law was simple but brutal, stating that all non-humans had no choice in their government.
    • Nearly every traditional human problem has been solved, and they live peacefully with benevolent non-humans.
    • The division between human and non-human may seem grossly arbitrary, but children's cartoon regulations allow for violence against non-humans while violence against humans remains regulated.
    • But if neither similarities of function nor similarities of mechanism between humans and non-humans can be reliably used to tell us about emotions in other species, what can we do?
    • The functional approach means examining the role of emotions in human behaviour and then asking whether the function is the same in humans and non-humans.
    • Most were non-violent, or involved violence directed at non-humans: aliens, ghosts, monsters and the like.
    • It's a very optimistic study of the potential for humans and non-humans to pool their collective knowledge and sort out the horrible planetary mess we've made of things so far.
    • They said that the apes were non-humans, so they viewed the world in a fundamentally different way than we did and so it was difficult to know what they were talking about unless someone was used to their mind set.
    • Even the other non-humans weren't particularly friendly with her.
    • The evolutionary view, for humans and non-humans, suggests that organisms are designed to develop, learn, and behave in ways that are conditional on environmental influences.
    • For six years you've been holding onto that guilt, passing it off as hatred for non-humans.
    • Her response has consistently been to delve into her tribal heritage and attempt to ‘go back’ to a world where humans and non-humans lived not as separate entities but as interdependent parts of a symbiotic whole.
 
 
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