Word: non-human
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...that was satisfactory proof that "the brutes" have no reason at all. Adler demands more before he will abandon man's uniqueness. Show me a neurologist who can "give an adequate explanation of conceptual thought in terms of brain action," he says; a zoologist who can "discover a non-human species of animal the members of which engage in conversation with one another"; and, most important of all, a technologist who can "produce a machine, specifically not a computer but an artifact that, without being programmed to do so, can engage in conversation with human beings...
...designed to confuse an oncoming fighter or trick an attacking missile into veering toward empty air. Such sophisticated electronic countermeasures may be the latest thing in aerial warfare, say Entomologists Dorothy C. Dunning and Kenneth D. Roeder of Tufts University, but the idea is not at all new to non-human flyers. For millions of years, shifty moths have been using similar sound-pulsing stunts to protect them selves from marauding bats...
...wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human. This image and my fear entered into a species of combination with each other. That shape am I, I felt, potentially, Nothing that I possess can defend me against that fate, if the hour for it should strike for me as it struck for him. There was such a horror...
...ladies were examined from all angles-some acute. Gynecologist Edmund Overstreet speculated on the possibility that the menopause might be an ailment rather than a natural process (no non-human primate seems to experience it). Philosopher Peter Koestenbaum prescribed a stiff course of existentialism for such female problems as sexual incompatibility...
...obsolete but reliable Army rocket. Perched on its nose was a Mercury space capsule, designed to carry a man into orbit and bring him back alive. The capsule was standard size, but its interior had been tailored for a chimp and supplied with special gear and fittings for its non-human passenger...