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  2. Human uses of living things - Wikipedia

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    In turn, animals provide much of the meat eaten by the human population, whether farmed or hunted, and until the arrival of mechanised transport, terrestrial mammals provided a large part of the power used for work and transport. A variety of living things serve as models in biological research, such as in genetics, and in drug testing.

  3. Human uses of animals - Wikipedia

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    Human uses of animals include both practical uses, such as the production of food and clothing, and symbolic uses, such as in art, literature, mythology, and religion. All of these are elements of culture, broadly understood. Animals used in these ways include fish, crustaceans, insects, molluscs, mammals and birds.

  4. Talk:Human uses of living things/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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  5. Human uses of arthropods - Wikipedia

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    The arthropods are a phylum of animals with jointed legs; they include the insects, arachnids such as spiders, myriapods, and crustaceans. [1] Insects play many roles in culture including their direct use as food, [2] in medicine, [3] for dyestuffs, [4] and in science, where the common fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster serves as a model organism for work in genetics and developmental biology.

  6. Living technology - Wikipedia

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    Living technology is the field of technology that derives its functionality and usefulness from the properties that make natural organisms alive (see life).It may be seen as a technological subfield of both artificial life and complex systems and is relevant beyond biotechnology to nanotechnology, information technology, artificial intelligence, environmental technology and socioeconomic ...

  7. Talk:Human uses of fish - Wikipedia

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    The existence of a hierarchy of interdisciplinary fields of study on the relationships between humans and nature makes the definition of any WP article on the topics based upon an interpretation of a textbook definition of culture not only unnecessary, but an exercise in synthesis as outlined in the discussion in Talk:Human uses of living ...

  8. Human uses of mammals - Wikipedia

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    In the twentieth century, many of the most popular works for children have anthropomorphic characters, [45] [46] including Beatrix Potter's 1901The Tale of Peter Rabbit, [47] Kenneth Grahame's 1908 The Wind in the Willows, and C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in all of which the animals, mainly mammals, wear human clothes and ...

  9. Wikipedia : Good article reassessment/Human uses of living ...

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    Completeness is obviously part of a GA review. I don't see how such an article could possibly ever be complete. The issue is not about the inclusion of these points, the issue is the exclusion of others since the article is about the human use of living things. It's not an article about the "most famous animal paintings".