Sentences with phrase «crania represent»

Part anatomical icon, part contemporary vanitas and part self - projection, the floating cranium represents a vital touchstone within Basquiat's visual lexicon.

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It seems logical, this being so, to postulate the osteological existence, at the beginning of anthropogenesis, of a prehominid fossil stage represented by crania decidedly less curved upon themselves (less «globular») than is the case with modern man: a presumption which is borne out by the very significant fact that at this pre-hominid stage Mankind seems to have been made up of a more or less divergent sheaf of ethnic shoots («sub-phyla»?)

The crania of 39 extant mammals, each representing a different genus, were scanned at the University of Texas High - Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility (Austin, Texas).