Sentences with phrase «human cranium»

Take, for example, Hirst's 2007 sculpture For the Love of God (a.k.a. the «Crystal Skull»), a platinum cast of a human cranium encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds: the piece was interpreted by some as a commentary on wretched excess in an art world awed by glamour and swimming in cash, but, whatever Hirst's satiric intention may have been, it was hard to detect in the asking price of # 50 million.

The discovery of a fragment of a human cranium located in a cave in the Galilee, was announced in the journal Nature this week.

Hrdlicka states that the smallest skull in this collection, at 910 cc, appears to be the lowest volume ever measured for a normal human cranium.

Piltdown Man turned out to be one of the most famous frauds in scientific history — a human cranium paired with an orangutan's jaw and teeth.

The capacity of the human cranium for creative energy is one way in which Adam and Eve are made in the image of their Creator.

Unlike other maps, this one was fashioned out of 300 human crania and other human bones exhumed from Khmer Rouge mass graves.

Not exact matches

The offense against religion is that it promotes a God that has poorly designed humans to have too small a birth canal, too large a cranium (pushing wisdom teeth into often painful positions), and since roughly 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage, is responsible for more abortions than anyone.

The human capacity for reason and freedom, embraced in the «transgressive» rise to humanhood and embodied in the enlarged cranium, comes at heavy bodily cost to the woman, indeed, often, with risk to her very life.

Clearly it is the expulsion of mind from the cosmic totality and its relegation to our individual craniums.10 It has been pointed out that prior to the Enlightenment, the human mind was seen as a mirror of the cosmos.

The cranium came from a modern human linked to the jaw of an orangutan.

The near - complete human skeleton, with an intact cranium and preserved DNA, was found along with other extinct fauna by a team of scientific divers led by Alberto Nava Blank from Proyecto de Espeleologia de Tulum (PET) in the Sac Actun cave system located off the eastern Yucatan Peninsula in 2007.

He further added that the cranium which was found in the cave of Aroeira is the oldest human fossil that has been excavated to date, and has some common features with other fossils from the same time period that have been found in Spain, Italy and France.

This new partial foot from Burtele (this is all that was found, no other post crania, crania or dentition) lacks an arch and two of the bones comprised an abducted toe, that is to say, an opposable toe, like the thumb on a human hand, capable of grasping tree limbs but less efficient than the human foot on the ground.

OH 83: A new early modern human fossil cranium from the Ndutu Beds of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Our canines are an adaptation to the enlarged cranium and the reduction of our jaw size (molars from dead humans that get dug up in archaeological diggings can get mistaken with molars of some other omnivores, funny isn't it).

An oversized, bald cranium, an unerring ability to create chaos from brilliant ideas and good intentions, plus always being picked last for sports in school, spurs Megamind into a life of villainy with Metro Man, human - like with super powers and great hair, as his sworn nemesis.

It may be an abbreviated human figure, as well — a cranium, to be exact.

Hirst's most famous sculpture, a huge work of a pregnant female human, cut away to expose the fetus, muscle and tissue and cranium.