Sentences with phrase «human skeletons on»

A human skeleton on display at the American Museum of Natural History's new Hall of Human Origins

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Some of them were of the bones of the hand, others of coins and keys photographed through the opaque walls of a leather pocket - book, all clearly demonstrating that he had found some strange new rays which had the amazing property of penetrating as opaque an object as the human body and revealing on a photographic plate the skeleton of a living person.

If you hold that no human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call human (there is a gradation of forms leading up to the modern human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when did we become accountable to God for our actions?).

Although both countries have now banned the export of human remains, Marsh suspects that many imported skeletons could still be on the US market.

Though China and India have since banned the export of human remains, Marsh suspects that many imported skeletons could stay on the US market.

An illustration based on the original excavator's description of a 10th century Swedish grave shows a human skeleton — now identified as female — placed near weapons, gaming pieces and two stirrups.

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That is about all scientists can agree on in the case of the adult human skeleton known as LB1 — popularly dubbed the hobbit.

The skeleton of a man who lived 2,330 years ago in the southernmost tip of Africa tells us about ourselves as humans, and throws some light on our earliest common genetic ancestry.

A prehistoric human skeleton found on the Yucatán Peninsula is at least 13,000 years old and most likely dates from a glacial period at the end of the most recent ice age, the late Pleistocene.

Shortly after the discovery of the human skeleton in February 2012 the site of the find was looted; unknown divers stole all the bones lying around on the ground of the cave.

Prehistoric human skeleton in the Chan Hol Cave near Tulúm on the Yucatán peninsula prior to looting by unknown cave divers.

But getting a DNA sample from a bone means drilling a hole in it, and archaeologists were not about to let geneticists go to work on the deteriorating human skeletons without some guarantee of a genome.

In addition to being the oldest known example of an early primate skeleton, the new fossil is crucial in elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the other.

Recent excavations of a 30 - meter ash altar on Mount Lykaion in Greece, once worshipped as the birthplace of Zeus, have revealed a 3000 - year - old skeleton of an adolescent boy thought to be a human sacrifice, The Boston Globe reports.

To get a more intuitive handle on his own research, Odde is using human dancers to explore how the cell's skeleton of microtubules spontaneously assembles and falls apart.

In 1974, in the bone - dry Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Site in Australia, scientists stumbled on a human skeleton in the dunes of long - vanished Lake Mungo.

Human skeletal biologist Simon Mays from the University of Southampton, UK, was unable to deduce the cause of death from the skeleton and he speculates that Stonehenge Man died of an infectious disease that killed too quickly to leave a trace on bones.

Any kid who relied on Skeletons in your Closet wouldn't have a hope of being able to participate in a discussion of human evolution, and wouldn't even be able to understand the discussion.

A forty percent complete skeleton, many of her large bones had been preserved through fossilization and from these, and in particular the femur (thigh bone) and pelvis, we know she stood upright and moved about on two legs and it was claimed she walked in the same manner as humans today: a straight legged stride, knees extended, posture upright.

In the May 30 2013 issue of Nature, William H Kimbel, Director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University cast considerable doubt on the recent announcement in the journal Science (see the report on this website) concerning fossilized partial skeletons found at Malapa Cave in South Africa and named Australopithecus sediba).

Throughout his career, Dr. Lee has focused on human inborn errors of metabolism and structural birth defects of the skeleton.

Miguel is drawn with the plump cheeks and beady eyes that render so many animated humans overly doll - like, but the many skeletons in Coco are fabulously kooky and the land of the dead is something to behold, a twinkling metropolis of hillside barrios and houses on stilts reached by dangling gondolas.

And if I may, some of the most satisfying films I've worked on, quickly, have been «The Poker Club» (Johnathon Schaech, Judy Reyes), «The Kid: Chamaco» (Martin Sheen, Michael Madsen), «Skeletons in the Desert» (dir: Gregory J. Martin), «Hunting Humans», «Hoboken Hollow» (Dennis Hopper), «Future Murder», and two films that sadly never got released, «Miss Wonton» and «Joe Joe Angel and The Dead Guy».

A range of gridded photographs of the human skeleton along with corresponding gridded sheets which students can use to draw the image on, transferring detail one square at a time.

*** An alternative task to assembling a human skeleton - engage your students by getting them to assemble a gorilla skeleton using the printout on card and split pins.

I spent every penny of that on a full - size model of a human skeleton!

Currently in development are the schemes of work for Upper Key Stage 2, which will focus on the link between diet, energy and physical activity, the short and long term effects of exercise and extending the knowledge of the human body to include the cardiovascular system, respiratory system, skeleton, muscles and joints.

On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its heaOn a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its heaon its head.

As you peer into the sacred cenote, your guide explains how archeologists delved into this pilgrimage site and pulled out wood, shells, cloth, jewelry and the skeletons of men and children, confirming that the natural sinkhole indeed was once used as a human sacrifice site.Stand on one of the platforms at the colossal ball court where Mayans played sports, and have another person from your group whisper from 150 feet (46 meters) away.

Cave tubing is the uniquely Belizean sport of floating on inner tubes through a series of subterranean labyrinths, many of them still containing artifacts, weapons, pottery, and even skeletons of the humans who were sacrificed by ancient Maya priests.

On a further note, the game world is littered with various objects from throughout human history such as ink bottles, magnifying glasses and literal skeleton keys, all of which have half of a famous quotation attributed to them.

Apparently the skeleton mapping that Natal employs is able to capture 48 points of interest on the human body, but will it work well when faced with a typical living / bedroom environment?

This escape leads you to a world where humans are made of congealed substances, skeletons do the downward - facing dog pose, while piercing eyes barely visible behind a zip tied banana, look on.

This can be seen in the sinister skeletons of Jackson Pollock's series Untitled Panels A — D (1934 — 38), the architecture depicted by Mark Rothko in Interior (1936), and the Philip Guston work The Porch (1946 — 47), where the human figure seems to be threatened and takes on a macabre tone clearly influenced by the Holocaust.

Skeletons and Silicon: The Art and Science of The Human Bodywill be on view in the Grunwald Study Center through August 2013.

Like the poignant skeletons of redundant dockers» cranes found on the opposite bank of the Thames, it is an unintentionally elegant monument to overlooked «stuff» — the armatures and detritus that carry remnants of activity, that speak of natural processes of collapse and renewal, and of the human propensity to construct and dismantle.

Even at low speeds, the impact on the human skeleton can cause severe harm.