Sentences with phrase «human skull for»

I have wanted a human skull for a long time.

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If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

Mar. 18, 2013 — Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now - rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis suggests

A 72 - year - old Septuagenarian, Idris Ajao, and one Tajudeen Akonife, 48, were on Tuesday arraigned before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates» Court for alleged possession of human skull...

A 72 - year - old man, Idris Ajao, has been arrested by the police in Osun state for being in possession of a human skull.

The Police in Kwara State on Thursday arrested and paraded a suspected ritualist with seven human skulls, in addition to other criminal suspects arrested for armed robbery, cultism and car snatching.

A 25 - year - old man, Babalola Alex has been arrested by the Ogun State police command for alleged possession of a human skull in the Asese area of...

A middle aged man, Godwin Okon, has been arrested by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command for being in possession of human skulls and three locally...

A 25 - year - old man, Babalola Alex has been arrested by the Ogun State police command for alleged possession of a human skull in the Asese area of the state.

Humans have been performing brain surgery — or at least drilling holes in one anothers» skulls — for thousands of years.

The mice behaved just like others of their kind, as far as scientists could tell, and they also looked the same — except for the human mini brain that had been implanted into each rodent's own cortex, made visible by a little clear cover replacing part of their skull.

Staffers at the Louisiana Department of Justice in Baton Rouge tracked the sale of human skulls on eBay for seven months.

Because the spinal cord entered the skull at the bottom rather than at the back, as it does for chimps, Dart believed the individual had walked upright — until then, considered an exclusively human trait.

«According to our analysis of the skull, which bears a complex mix of archaic and modern characteristics, this was probably the only place on earth where Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans lived side by side for a long period of time.»

«If modern humans indeed moved from Africa 70,000 years ago to Israel, this skull means they settled in the Levant for a long period of time, before moving to Europe (45,000 years ago).

«The geological similarities between the sediments at the place where the skull was found and sediments laid down during the 1998 tsunami that hit this same coastline have made us realise that human populations in this area have been affected by these massive inundations for thousands of years.»

It is interesting that the most similar skulls in our sample come from recent Africans on the one hand, and on the other hand from those modern humans that lived in Europe between 20 - 30,000 years ago as, for instance,... [in one location] in the Czech Republic.»

He uses a plaster cast of a human jaw to demonstrate for scuba diver Susan Bird how to handle Naia's skull so that it stays intact while being placed in a padded box.

From this, he proposes a new theory for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal cortexes — the region of the brain that integrates visual imagery and motor coordination — because of an evolutionary arms race with increasingly wary prey.

To support these claims, Gould presented the case of Samuel George Morton, a 19th - century American physician and scientist famous for his measurements of human skulls, particularly their cranial capacity (the skeletal equivalent of brain size).

«With the skulls we found,» co-author Ignacio Martínez, Professor of Paleontology at the University of Alcalá, added, «it was possible to characterize the cranial morphology of a human population of the European Middle Pleistocene for the first time.»

One of the critical lines of evidence for the evolution of the human is that provided by «fossil brains» or fossilised calvariae (the top part of the skull), which has been unfairly compared to phrenology.

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras at the UCM - ISCIII Joint Centre for Research into Human Evolution and Behaviour in Madrid, Spain, and his team studied 17 of the skulls (see photo).

Evidence of skull surgery on humans, whether for medical or ritual reasons, goes back about 11,000 years (SN: 5/28/16, p. 12).

A nearly complete skull of a mysterious member of the human family was unveiled this week at the same time as researchers reported a surprisingly recent age for this ancient cave dweller in South Africa.

Where the Neanderthal had gene variants for a larger skull, for instance, Church would use MAGE to modify the nucleotide sequences that constituted those genes in one or more of the chunks of human DNA.

More precise dating of the hundreds of often co-mingled human remains at the site could also indicate the relationship between, for example, a body and the plastered skull cradled in its arms at the time of burial: Were they parent and child, or was the skull a venerated ancestor, many generations removed?

The shapes and sizes of thousands of skulls from all over the globe point to a single origin in sub-Saharan Africa for modern humans, according to a recent study.

For hundreds of years, Gould argues, questionable measurements of human intelligence, like skull size or IQ, have been used to justify racism, sexism, and class stratification.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

But the most striking difference is that, for Gish, skull ER 1470 and the Homo erectus fossils are apes or monkeys; for Lubenow, they are fully and completely human.

It was a controversial interpretation for many, as it contradicted religious beliefs about human origins; the short, stocky limb bones and the skull's oversized brow suggested an ape - like ancestor that did not fit in with the biblical idea of God's creation.

S.J. Gould, in «The Mismeasure of Man», reviewed a 19th century study by Morton of 600 skulls which ranged from 950 to 1870 cc (and 25 % of this sample was of small - statured Peruvians, so the figure of 950 cc is, if anything, lower than it might be for 600 randomly selected humans).

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.

Let us grant, for the moment and for the sake of argument, AIG's claim that the skull sizes of Homo erectus fall within the range of modern humans.

So, another question for AIG: if the Dmanisi skulls are H. erectus, and erectus skulls are «within the range of people today», could they please provide some evidence of modern humans with similar brain sizes?

One reason for going there had been a human skull which a mining engineer had found at Wadjak in 1888.

But for a skull that small, it would have been a very tiny human.

Even if you do not take medication or have a serious health problem, you may want to consult with a knowledgeable clinician, especially during the first month or two, to help you troubleshoot any issues that may arise, but ultimately the ketogenic diet is a safe and healthy diet for the vast majority of human beings — certainly much safer and healthier than the standard American diet, which should come in a package with a skull and crossbones on it A properly - formulated ketogenic diet contains everything the brain and body require to function well.

Despite these serious medical issues, dogs that exhibit brachycephalic head type have been favored for hundreds of years due to the similarity of their skull shape to that of human infants [8].

For example, short - skulled dogs are more attentive to pointing signals from humans [70] and more likely to self - groom but less likely to chase [71].

The headset sports a relatively clean, black look with a few molded lines that break up the flow and a chunky design philosophy when it comes to the earcups, which look a bit like they're actually some form of breaching charge intended for blasting through human skulls.

For those of you asking if Tron Bonne counts as a true mecha game: if it's a machine, if there's a pilot, if it has legs, and if one of those legs could stomp a human skull into mash, then that's a mecha.

This time, The Gamesmen talk about Google's VR headset, Bethesda mods on PS4, Digital Homicide hurting after filing lawsuit the new to Origin Access, a human skull to creating the sounds of Inside, Facebook's dealings with revenge pornography, the space needed for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and -LSB-...]

In a recent interview with Gamasutra, Playdead sound designer and composer Martin Stig Andersen talked about how his interest in how our voices sound different in our own heads inspired him to use a human skull as part of the audio recording process for Inside:

This time, The Gamesmen talk about Google's VR headset, Bethesda mods on PS4, Digital Homicide hurting after filing lawsuit the new to Origin Access, a human skull to creating the sounds of Inside, Facebook's dealings with revenge pornography, the space needed for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and if Final Fantasy 15 was ported to PC.

To accompany the retrospective, «For the Love of God» (2007)-- a platinum cast of a human skull set with 8,601 flawless pavé - set diamonds — is on exhibition in the Tate Modern's monumental turbine hall.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.