Human uses of plants include both practical uses, such as for food, clothing, and medicine, and symbolic uses, such as in art, mythology and literature...
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Human uses of bats include economic uses such as bushmeat or in traditional medicine. Bats are also used symbolically in religion, mythology, superstition...
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Human uses of reptiles have for centuries included both symbolic and practical interactions. Symbolic uses of reptiles include accounts in mythology,...
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principle of proportionality. Janina Dill, a laws of war professor at University of Oxford, stated, "Even if Hamas uses civilians as human shields, those...
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Human uses of mammals include both practical uses, such as for food, sport, and transport, and symbolic uses, such as in art and mythology. Mammals have...
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Human uses of birds have, for thousands of years, included both economic uses such as food, and symbolic uses such as art, music, and religion. In terms...
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Human uses of living things, including animals plants, fungi, and microbes, take many forms, both practical, such as the production of food and clothing...
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The Human Use of Human Beings is a book by Norbert Wiener, the founding thinker of cybernetics theory and an influential advocate of automation; it was...
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is an alphabetical list of plants used in herbalism. Phytochemicals possibly involved in biological functions are the basis of herbalism, and may be grouped...
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geographic areas Plants in culture – uses of plants by humansPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Narcissus in culture - uses of narcissus...
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This is a list of plant species that, when consumed by humans, are known or suspected to produce psychoactive effects: changes in nervous system function...
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Angiosperms (flowering plants) were the original source of most plant medicines. Human settlements are often surrounded by weeds used as herbal medicines...
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Plants that produce toxins and/or cause irritation on contact are referred to as poisonous plants. The toxins in poisonous plants affect herbivores, and...
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Various plants are used around the world for smoking due to various chemical compounds they contain and the effects of these chemicals on the human body...
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Hermaphrodite (redirect from Human hermaphroditism)
Andromonoecy occurs in about 4000 species of flowering plants (2% of flowering plants). In gynomonoecious species, the plants produce hermaphrodite flowers and...
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fungi and some of the algae. By the definition used in this article, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (green plants), which consists of the green algae...
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Botany (redirect from Study of plants)
the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – plants that were edible, poisonous, and possibly medicinal, making it one of the first endeavours...
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Evolutionary models of drug use seek to explain human drug usage from the perspective of evolutionary fitness. Plants for instance, may provide fitness...
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(flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants. The...
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list of fictional plants describes invented plants that appear in works of fiction. Audrey Jr.: a man-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors...
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(See: Wonders of the World) Monstrous Minerals. Monstrous Vegetables. (See: Largest plants, Poisonous plants, and Carnivorous plants) Monstrous Animals...
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been proposed that humans have used fire to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus. Human domestication of wild plants began about 11,700...
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Legume (redirect from Plants pulse)
ləˈɡjuːm/) are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the...
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as not noticing plants in the surrounding environment, not recognizing the importance of plant life to the whole biosphere and to human affairs, a philosophical...
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Nutrition (redirect from Outline of human nutrition)
consuming other organisms. Humans have developed agriculture and cooking to replace foraging and advance human nutrition. Plants acquire nutrients through...
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Floriculture is the study of the efficient production of the plants that produce showy, colorful flowers and foliage for human enjoyment in human environments. It...
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table of plants used as herbs and/or spices. This includes plants used as seasoning agents in foods or beverages (including teas), plants used for herbal...
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artifacts related to the use of fire by humans have been recovered, including charred logs, charcoal, carbonized grass stems and plants, and wooden implements...
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Resin (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
naturally occurring resins. Plants secrete resins for their protective benefits in response to injury. Resins protect plants from insects and pathogens...
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Weed (redirect from Pest plant)
weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, growing where it conflicts with human preferences, needs, or goals. Plants with characteristics...
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