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US
/nɑnˈhjumən/
]
ADJECTIVE
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not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings
nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees
How To Use nonhuman In A Sentence
- What ethically significant feature can there be that all human beings but no nonhuman animals possess?
- [...] nonhuman animals may have the capacity to learn surface transformations involved in affixation, but they cannot link them to other aspects of linguistic structure. “Quotes” and monkey grammar at the BBC « Motivated Grammar
- While at the moment the proportion of the human genome being inserted into the genome of nonhumans is minuscule, at what stage will we start ascribing transgenic animals carrying human genes, the same values we ascribe to humans?
- In her estimation, experts misinterpreted some of the intricate crevices and lumps on this brain cast, leading to the mistaken assumption that a feature called the lunate sulcus was in a position similar to ours, when the lunate sulcus was actually in a position more similar to nonhuman apes. Bones That Tell a Tale
- Especially if the city is older than time, built on the slopes of an uneasily slumbering volcano, atop murmuring catacombs, and the eldritch ruins where men fear to tread loom over the unclimbed and unclimbable far side of the volcano, and strange musics or shrieks of nonhuman laughter ring across the ashy slopes when the moon is dark, or, in the case of Mars, moons. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
- The meat will then either be carted off to landfills, tossed into incinerators, or set aside for rendering into nonhuman protein sources - i.e., dog and livestock food.
- The phrase ‘course of action’ and its property of ‘determinateness’ refers to the human realization of ultimate ends; that is, ends that are not reducible to, nor explained by, the natural world of the environment-human or nonhuman.
- It's speciesist to give humans greater moral consideration than nonhumans for any reason.
- Crow believes the authors of these papers want to find precursors of language in nonhuman primates to support a theory of graduated evolution.
- This means that ‘apparently distant’ forms of life imbricate deeply because the same ontological mechanisms responsible for anthropogenesis treat nonhuman forms of life as similarly negative in their unlikeness to human life.