Sentences with phrase «century anatomist»

Along with his famous Java Man fossils, 19th - century anatomist Eugène Dubois collected shells with small holes that appeared to be made by shark teeth at the site.

The mid — 20th - century anatomists were correct to worry about the human foot as they did: Ours turns out to have evolved in one direction, while those of African apes were evolving in quite another.

Not exact matches

«Anatomists have debated how to compare the DVR and neocortex for over a century, and our identification of IT neurons in the bird DVR helps to explain how such different brain structures can give rise to similar behaviors.»

In 1816, an Italian anatomist reported finding lymphatic vessels on the surface of the brain, but for two centuries, it was forgotten.

Some mid — 20th - century comparative anatomists were so impressed with the profound differences between human and extant ape feet that they postulated a deep, pre-ape origin for hominids.

Phrenology was founded by the reputable anatomist Franz Gall late in the 18th century.

For centuries, classical anatomists have understood that the vertebrate spine is make up of discrete sections along its length, each containing vertebrae of different shape and function.

The early study of fossil bones was dominated by the 19th - century French comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier.

A half - century later, in 1888, the German anatomist Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer - Hartz peered through his microscope and decided to use the wordchromosome — meaning «color body» — for the tiny, dye - absorbing threads that he and others could see inside nuclei with the best microscopes of their day.

For centuries, anatomists had dissected the human body according to instructions spelled out by ancient Greek texts.

The earliest accurate anatomic depiction of the human heart is usually credited to the sixteenth - century Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius.

«These findings show a relationship between the hypothesis that schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder and the longstanding hypothesis — first articulated by the German anatomist Karl Wernicke in the late 19th century — that it is a disease of altered connectivity between regions of the brain,» added Alexander - Bloch.

Comparative anatomists as far back as the 16th century noted the similarities, and several key fossil finds have backed up those observations.

A half - century later, in 1888, the German anatomist Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer - Hartz peered through his microscope and decided to use the word chromosome — meaning «color body» — for the tiny, dye - absorbing threads that he and others could see inside nuclei with the best microscopes of their day.

Did you know that the technique is named after Antonio Maria Valhalla,] a seventeenth - century physician and anatomist from Bologna whose principal scientific interest was the human ear.