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Origin of nonhuman
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At the same time, I have come to regard my tech tweaks as a relatively harmless nonhuman gesture.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Fully computer-animated films followed, along with fully digital nonhuman characters such as Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” and the Na’vi from “Avatar.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
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 • Feb. 10, 2026
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 • Dec. 18, 2025
I wondered if he could have thoughts, or if he was more like a nonhuman animal.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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