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- nonhumanness noun
Etymology
Origin of nonhuman
Example Sentences
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The irony would be acute: While many enthusiasts view Mars as a refuge to save humankind from disaster, its inhabitants could quickly become nonhuman.
Despite these well-documented behaviors in children, no controlled experiments had previously tested whether nonhuman animals could understand or track pretend situations.
From Science Daily
Because the study was conducted in nonhuman primates, further research will be needed to determine whether the same effects occur in people.
From Science Daily
Orangutans have the longest inter-birth interval of all nonhuman primates; a single infant is born and cared for by its mother for seven to eight years before another infant is born.
From Los Angeles Times
Saviynt has spent that time fine-tuning its platform to capture a growing demand to handle both “human and nonhuman” identity and access controls, Nayyar said.
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