# Talk:Human uses of living things

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Nominator: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 07:30, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: ZKevinTheCat (talk · contribs) 17:42, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Many thanks. I'll respond promptly to any comments. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:47, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Beginning the GA review. Good luck.
— ZKevinTheCat

I'm not sure why this article was delisted in the first place, but I think this has been brought up to standard again. 
While personally I am not a fan of the writing style, it does do its job. it is easy to understand and follow along with, and stays consistent thoughout the article. Sources are used often throughout the article and finding a citation for a claim is not difficult. It is also fairly broad and does adress the major aspects of the topic, albeit it is not super detailed. The other criteria are also met; there are plenty of images, no bias, and it is stable.
This has been on the burner for quite some time (about 6 or 7 months i believe) so it's nice to finally get it off the nomination list. ZKevinTheCat (talk) 05:17, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

ZKevinTheCat, thank you, but it'd be appreciated if you could indicate which references you have spot-checked, so that everyone knows the review has been robustly according to the rules. Many thanks! Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:50, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
This makes the relationships bidirectional, explicitly implying various forms of symbiosis in a complex ecology.
The Emergence of Multispecies Ecology (Kirksey): "Animals, plants, fungi, and microbes once confined in anthropological accounts to the realm of zoe or “bare life”—that which is killable—have started to appear alongside humans in the realm of bios, with legibly biographical and political lives" ✔
Multispecies Archaeology (Birch): "Pivotal research topics in archaeology have long simplified ecological novelty... by framing that novelty as one of many 'major transitions' emphasizing the uniqueness of our species rather than viewing novelty as a collective shift shared amongst multiple species and their habitats" ✔
Biology studies the whole range of living things. Animals such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zebrafish, the chicken and the house mouse, serve a major role in science as experimental models...
Alternatives to animal testing: A review (Doke): "Various animals like mice, rats, hamsters, rabbits, fishes (examples – zebra fish, trout), birds (mainly chicken), guinea pigs, amphibians (xenopus frogs), primates, dogs, cats etc. are being used in research for a long time... Drosophila melanogaster, also known as fruit fly is one of the most widely studied invertebrates in research" ✔
Major artistic depictions of animals include Albrecht Dürer's 1515 The Rhinoceros, and George Stubbs's c. 1762 horse portrait Whistlejacket.
The top 10 animal portraits in art (Reed): "Albrecht Durer – The Rhinoceros (1515). Famously, Durer had never seen a rhino. Yet his drawing and woodcut manifest the curiosity about nature that was growing in the Renaissance... George Stubbs – Whistlejacket (c 1762). This magnificent animal seems free of everything, even space and time, as it rears up in an abstract unfinished setting." ✔
In Buddhist symbolism, both the lotus and the Bodhi Tree are significant. The lotus is one of the Ashtamangala (eight auspicious signs) shared between Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, representing the primordial purity of body, speech, and mind, floating above the muddy waters of attachment and desire.
Ethnobiology (Anderson): "Buddha is often depicted over an immaculate lotus and this plant represents bodily and mental purity floating above the muddy waters of attachment to earthly desires" ✔
The foundations of Buddhism (Gethin): "His five companions thought he had turned away from the quest and left him to his own devices. In the full legend this is the occasion of the young woman Sujata's (or, according to some, Nandabala's) offering of milk-rice to the Bodhisattva. Now nourished, he seated himself beneath an asvattha or pipal tree (ficus religiosa), henceforth to be known as 'the tree of awakening' or Bodhi-tree." ✔ ZKevinTheCat (talk) 19:30, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
Many thanks! Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:43, 6 April 2025 (UTC)