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Origin of nonhuman
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Vertical climbing is not limited to nonhuman primates.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Startup founders are working harder than ever to keep up with their nonhuman employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
They caution against accepting narratives that ascribe human traits to nonhuman things and suggest this incident was merely a case of poor security practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
He is a filmmaker with an abiding humanism, evidently flummoxed in the face of the nonhuman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
What is often called the strategy of nuclear deterrence is remarkable for its reliance on the behavior of our nonhuman ancestors.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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