In her years in the wild, Goodall came to see that chimpanzees are highly intelligent, emotional creatures that live in complex social groups. ... Chimpanzees live in social groups called communities or unit groups. ... When Jane started her study, a chimp called Goliath was leader. ... Contact is maintained between members of the scattered groups by means of the distance call: the pant hoot. ... For ten minutes the three performed their wild displays while Fifi and her younger offspring watched from one of the tall fig trees by the stream." ...

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The Neanderthal were the first humans to live in Ice Age conditions, surviving by hunting the largest and most formidable Pleistocene mammals--the mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, and wild cattle. ... These artists' reconstructions depict the rugged hunting life of the ice-age Europeans of our species [often called Cro-Magnon after an early discovery site in France]. ...

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"If you get a chance to see them in the wild they are mutually grooming each other, scratching each other, leaning gently into each other, sharing breath with each other (a very intimate activity done by putting their noses together and sharing the air). ... However, they do make some noises that have been observed both in the wild and in captivity by researchers. ... Through this display, the male penguin raises up, pumps his chest several times, rolls his eyes, points his bill with his neck stretched to the air, moves his flippers up and down and then calls as loud as possible. ... The ...

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They carved the so-called Venus figures, ritual statuettes of bone, and made outline drawings on cave walls. ... The wild horse was their chief quarry. ... This is a clear indication that human populations developed new and ingenious ways to catch and kill animals, while the same time they devoted more energy to fishing and the collection of wild plant foods. ...

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Children would hear this story taught in their Sunday school classes in which God flooded the whole earth and the only one who survived was Noah and his family with a pair of every living animal on a big ship that we call the ark. As a child it is fun to let your imagination run wild with this story. Trying to imagine this huge boat could carry all the animals in the earth on it, Noah, and his family is quite fun and as a child your imagination can run wild. ... We are called to have faith like a child and we will be rewarded for this faith. ...

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THe creature learns the language in two, starting from knowing nothing: During the winter of 1799, a wild boy of about eleven or tweleve, who presumeably had ived most of his life in the forests of th eCepartment of Aveyron in southeren France,was captured" by several local sportsmen and eventually placed in a hospital. ... In 1828, at the age of about 40, the wild boy of Aveyon dies, never having become a full human being. ... The parent is there for the infant to give it warmth and love, also called parenting. ... This is called "the human life cycle." ...

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In Tibet, many of the indigenous people practice sky burial, jhator, where the body is placed on a mountain where it is consumed by wild animals.3 Death rituals are very common throughout humanity and occasionally appear in the behaviors of other animals. ... They will call out for hours, as if they were mourning for the dead crow.4 Elephants also have a death ritual. ... The humpback whale travels in a group called a pod. ...

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Another case involving negative effects and standards with isolation is the situation concerning a boy that sociologists call Victor. ... Victor had no chance of living like a normal person; he always lived as people referred to him as, the Wild Boy of Aveyron. ...

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Mitchell, Freud and Beyond) He recognized that each person is born with various natural drives that he called instincts, such as the need to satisfy sexual desires and the need to be aggressive. ... It became apparent to him that the social values of British society had been forgotten and replaced with the wild behavior of primitive man. "...Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart..." ...

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For example, according to James Rachels, the most common argument in support of euthanasia is one that we may call "the argument from mercy". ... Our reflexes and responses fit us to fight attackers, flee wild animals, and dodge out of the way of trucks. ...

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By doing so he has given reason to the different strata of the forest, the yearly wild fires, and how the animals that called this area home interacted with the land to produce the current outcome. ...

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Students then inject the dogs with drugs, then open the animals while they are still alive, a term called vivisection. ... After the flood, God placed power with man over all the wild animals and gave them to man for food. ...

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In genetics, normal is used to indicate the wild-type or the gene that is most suited to survival and reproduction. ... On the website I found an article called "Human Cloning and Human Disunity: An Ethical Inquiry. ...

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Some cultures believe that "the invisible atmosphere that animates the visible world - the subtle presence that circulates both within us and between all things - retains within itself the spirit or breath of the dead person until the time when that breath will enter and animate another visible body - a bird, or a deer, or a field of wild grain" (Abram 11). ... When reverting back to human nature, however, people cannot produce this type of pure altruism that technology calls for. ...

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For instance, wheat without GM trait cannot stay alive in the wild as it is unable to disperse its seed. ... Studies have proved that nowadays, "insect-resistant plants (maize, soybean, cotton, etc.) have been obtained by introducing into the plant genome the gene of a bacterium (Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt) coding for a protein (called Bt protein) which is toxic for insects (for instance insects which attack maize, rice, cotton, etc. and can cause important yield losses), but not for man, animals or the environment" (Weil 312). ...

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Some cultures believe that "the invisible atmosphere that animates the visible world - the subtle presence that circulates both within us and between all things - retains within itself the spirit or breath of the dead person until the time when that breath will enter and animate another visible body - a bird, or a deer, or a field of wild grain" (Abram 11). ... When reverting back to human nature, however, people cannot produce this type of pure altruism that technology calls for. ...

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Along with the Bible, Homer's famous Iliad is a masterpiece of unrivaled historical and literary value. Central to Homer's epic is the theme of interactions between human beings and gods are central to Homer's Iliad. The epic revolves around the story of Achilleus's plight, and the manner in which...

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