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Humans commit violence on other humans at a rate comparable to other primates, but have an increased preference for killing adults, infanticide being more common among other primates. [462] Phylogenetic analysis predicts that 2% of early H. sapiens would be murdered , rising to 12% during the medieval period, before dropping to below 2% in ...
The human population exploits a large number of other animal species for food, both of domesticated livestock species in animal husbandry and, mainly at sea, by hunting wild species. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] Marine fish of many species are caught commercially for food.
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
The human sex ratio, according to the 2011 census, is 940 females per 1,000 males. [355] The median age was 28.7 in 2020. [ 288 ] The first post-colonial census, conducted in 1951, counted 361 million people. [ 357 ]
The digestive system of birds is unique, with a crop for storage and a gizzard that contains swallowed stones for grinding food to compensate for the lack of teeth. [149] Some species such as pigeons and some psittacine species do not have a gallbladder. [150] Most birds are highly adapted for rapid digestion to aid with flight. [151]
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Moldova, [d] officially the Republic of Moldova, [e] is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans. [16] The country spans a total of 33,483 km 2 (12,928 sq mi) and has a population of approximately 2.42 million as of January 2024. [17]
Dubai has a free trade in gold and, until the 1990s, was the hub of a "brisk smuggling trade" [59] of gold ingots to India, where gold import was restricted. Dubai's Jebel Ali port, constructed in the 1970s, has the largest human-made harbour in the world and was ranked seventh globally for the volume of container traffic it supports. [ 164 ]