the higher mammals

Those are very minor renal functions in the higher mammals.

In the higher mammals we get the beginnings of instinctive affection.

All but the most ephemeral organisms tended to live through at least one complete year, and the higher mammals survived longer.

"As you know, it was in 1981 that the Accident occurred which sterilized man and most of the higher mammals.

Like the higher mammals and the other primates, humans have a relatively massive neocortex.

Grizzlies are also classified as umbrella species since they have a relatively large range and are of the higher mammals.

The great physiologist, I knew, had been engaged on very sensational experiments on the brains of the higher mammals.

And in practice only human minds, and to some extent the minds of the higher mammals, could be entered.

With a little-only a little-understanding, it had seemed to him that it should be possible to get through to at least all of the higher mammals.

He solved the problem, at least temporarily, by dodging hospital duty: went into a laboratory where they were conducting brain-surgery experiments on the higher mammals.

Singer, it will be remembered, in claiming that the higher mammals were persons, provides the support of the chimpanzee's frequent use of the sign 'Me Washoe'.

Amphitherium is the earliest representative of the pantotheres, a group of early mammals that, it is believed, represents the stock that gave rise to all the higher mammals of later times".

The instinct that causes humans to band together in the face of danger from a strange enemy is based on the primitive bonds of affection not only in the human family but in the higher mammals.

The cortex itself is so recent in evolution that it is often called "the new brain"; it is found only in the higher mammals and is most developed in humans and cetaceans (dolphins and whales).

Later, in The Descent of Man (1871), he argued: "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties," attributing to animals the power of reason, decision making, memory, sympathy and imagination.

Yet it seems inconceivable to be able to do so without investing every creature from worms and viruses, which follow very precise cycles of action, to the higher mammals, with the sagacity and foresight of seasoned desert nomads or intrepid Viking explorers.

We know it all began the year 1360 Imperial, 1822 After the Breakthrough, 2305 after the human Micah Schell found the hormone that broke the lock on rudimentary animal intelligence and enabled the higher mammals to attain at least the mental abilities of a human ten-year-old.

If Darwin was right when he argued that there is no fundamental discontinuity between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties, and we accept, as surely we must, the general validity of the Darwinian theory of evolution and the connectedness of species, then where does morality come in?