Sentences with phrase «early anatomists»

The early anatomists had that curiosity in spades.

Montillo uses the classic novel Frankenstein as her starting point to explore the shady science and changing social mores that inspired Mary Shelley's 1818 tale, and folds details of Shelley's personal life into a broader history of early anatomists and alchemists.

Not exact matches

Comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley, for example, noticed similarities in the body plans of dinosaurs and birds as early as the 1860s.

Professional anatomists analyzed 3D scans of the bone and concluded that it was a match for our own species, rather than another early hominins such as Neandertals or a member of Australopithecus.

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

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