In the experiment, reported online in the Journal of Human Evolution, a human adult first attracted the attention of the non-human ape or the human child, and then looked up at the ceiling.
The great Pablo Casals once described himself as a human being first, a musician second, and a cellist third.
Unsurprisingly, laws in California are tougher, disallowing robocalls from being put through to a caller until a live human being first asks if the call is acceptable, but there is no clear way to file a complaint to the state when the law is broken (which it invariably is).
Paul MacCready, the man behind the Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft, founded the mini-conglomerate.
The first human trial is slated for early next year, in patients with so-called complete injuries.
'Caribbeanness' began to form when the first human groups set foot on the islands.
Ms Williamson said she would be happy to be the first human to test the technique.
One of the more controversial movies of the summer is niche horror The Human Centipede (First Sequence).
She is the founder of the The Prizm Project, the first human rights education organization for young women.
Two years later, though, one researcher derived the first human embryonic stem cells by turning to private funding.
For the few who don't know, Yeager's the first human to fly above Mach 1, the speed of sound.
Perhaps he is truly the first human victim of a genetically modified crop.
Australian company CSL announced this week it planned to start the first human trials of a swine flu vaccine in Australia.
Nasa has also identified 2014 as a possible launch date for the first human mission to Mars in a 1997 study.
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet pilot, became the first human to travel into outer space a few years later, on April 12, 1961.
Geron's treatment for spinal cord injury was the first human embryonic stem cell therapy to receive FDA approval for a clinical trial.
So far the virus has appeared only in parts of eastern China surrounding Shanghai, where the first human infection was publicly identified Sunday.
As for embryonic stem cells, Okarma said his company hopes to start the first human trials of them in the middle of next year.
The chip, which has been in development for over a decade, just completed its first human test, which it passed with flying colors.
What's startling (and perhaps difficult to comprehend) is that Mandel, with his amateur setup, is the first human being ever to have seen this sight.
Bresee said the first human cases were reported in July 2011.
As part of a graduate project a year earlier, the two built the world's first human-powered ornithopter a plane that flaps its wings and flew it nearly 500 feet.
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You might be the first human to see a newborn giraffe or follow a pride of lions on a hunt, or even try a safari by foot.
In early May Garry Nicholson left a 30-year career at Eli Lilly to take a job at Pfizer overseeing its oncology business, from the first human tests to marketing.
Since China reported the first human infections of the new bird flu virus, known as H7N9, on March 31, authorities have had to compete with the online rumor mill.
Few remember the number of steps Neil Armstrong took when he landed on the moon, but they remember he was the first human being who stepped on the moon.
Eleven years later, the Food and Drug Admin-istration has approved the first human studies on the efficacy of MDMA. The tests could begin as early as six months from now.
The birth of the first human child who began life as an embryo outside the human body made headlines world-wide and, within a few years, spawned hundreds of commercial IVF clinics.
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