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Cannibalism ( from Caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formerly well known for their practice of cannibalism ) is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

The word homo, the name of the biological genus to which humans belong, is Latin for " human ".

Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English, Old High German, Gothic Midjun-gards ; literally " middle enclosure ") is the name for the world ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds and in Norse mythology.

The discoverers proposed the name " prometheum " ( the spelling was subsequently changed ), derived from Prometheus, the Titan in Greek mythology who stole fire from Mount Olympus and brought it down to humans, to symbolize " both the daring and the possible misuse of mankind's intellect.

Despite their needs, prairie dogs are very social animals and come to seem as though they treat humans as members of their colony, answering barks and chirps, and even coming when called by name.

* Terran ( StarCraft ), the name given to the humans in the StarCraft science fiction series

Despite the name, they are not affected by chickenpox, which is generally restricted to humans.

Western philosopher Michel Foucault, claimed that as sexual subjects, humans are the object of power, which is not an institution or structure, rather it is a signifier or name attributed to " complex strategical situation ".

Scientists such as Jared Diamond in The Third Chimpanzee, and Morris Goodman of Wayne State University in Detroit suggest that the bonobo and common chimpanzee are so closely related to humans that their genus name also should be classified with the human genus Homo: Homo paniscus, Homo sylvestris, or Homo arboreus.

In either case, a name change of the genus would have implications on the taxonomy of extinct species closely related to humans, including Australopithecus.

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Linnaeus had originally given humans the species name of diurnus, meaning man of the day.

But he later decided that the dominating feature of humans was wisdom, hence application of the name sapiens.

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When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of humans, societies, institutions, and any topic that has changed over time.

Captain Kangaroo had a loose structure, built around life in the " Treasure House " where the Captain ( the name " kangaroo " came from the big pockets in his coat ) would tell stories, meet guests, and indulge in silly stunts with regular characters, both humans and puppets.

A variation of that name, Saavik, was later given to a female Vulcan when elements of several premises were combined for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and elements of Xon, such as his search to understand humans, would be transferred later into the character Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Wheat, for example, after millennia of hybridization and modification by humans, has strains that are diploid ( two sets of chromosomes ), tetraploid ( four sets of chromosomes ) with the common name of durum or macaroni wheat, and hexaploid ( six sets of chromosomes ) with the common name of bread wheat.

In the game, their name is spelled “ Migou ” ( see below ), but they are commonly referred to as bugs by humans.

It parallels how humans search through a telephone book for a particular name, the key value by which the book's entries are ordered.

The NCS model, for its part, describes the organization of the color sensations as perceived at the upper, brain level, and thus is much better fitted than RGB to deal with how humans experience and describe their color sensations ( hence the " natural " part of its name ); but it would be useless, for example, for describing the behavior of mixing lights and pigments.

Interpreting the sculpture in terms of its name, one might trace the origin: " The duty children owed their parents, termed pietas, was associated by Romans with the duty humans owed their gods " ( James S. Jeffers, The Greco-Roman World of the New and Old Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity, Downers Grove, Ill. InterVarsity Press, 1999 ).

The fire ant is thought to infest approximately two million acres of land in Georgia, attacking crops, young wildlife and livestock and can be a serious health menace to humans who are allergic to its venom, Blasingame said.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

Even a nuclear holocaust is a little less frightful to contemplate than a race of dehumanised humans occupying the earth until doomsday ''.

Helping behavior is seen in humans at about two years old, when a toddler is capable of understanding subtle emotional cues.

A related concept in descriptive ethics is psychological egoism, the thesis that humans always act in their own self-interest and that true altruism is impossible.

The pineal body, known to regulate sleep patterns in humans, is thought to produce the hormones involved in hibernation and aestivation in amphibians.

In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

Eastern Anatolia, along side Mesopotamia and the Levant, is also a heart region for the Neolithic revolution, one of the earliest areas in which humans domesticated plants and animals.

Rieux reflects on the epidemic and reaches the conclusion that there is more to admire than to despise in humans.

It is arbitrary and capricious, and it leaves humans in a state of fear and uncertainty, which ends only in death.

Environmental ethics is concerned with questions such as the duties of humans towards landscapes or species.

Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients.

The thick inner layer of the shell is composed of nacre or mother-of-pearl, which in many species is highly iridescent, giving rise to a range of strong and changeable colors, which make the shells attractive to humans as decorative objects, and as a source of colorful mother-of-pearl.

Abalone have long been a valuable food source for humans in every area of the world where a species is abundant.

It may be an exaggerated form of an instinctive response that helped early humans to survive, or a cultural phenomenon that is most common in predominantly European societies.

Spiders, for instance, being relatively small, don ’ t fit the usual criterion for a threat in the animal kingdom where size is a factor, but nearly all species are venomous, and although rarely dangerous to humans, some species are dangerous.

Animism encompasses the beliefs that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical ( or material ) world, and souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in all other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment.

The reported output from global aquaculture operations would supply one half of the fish and shellfish that is directly consumed by humans ; however, there are issues about the reliability of the reported figures.

* 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.

Hume concludes that there is an innate faculty of instincts which both beasts and humans share, namely, the ability to reason experimentally ( through custom ).