Sentences with phrase «human skull from»

All of which is quite interesting, especially the tungsten crankshaft, but let's get back to the ludicrous 91 mm turbocharger sticking out the hood like an intake or human skull from «Mad Max: Fury Road.»

The partial human skull from Longlin Cave and the human calotte, partial mandibles and teeth from Maludong both present a range of individual features and a composite of characters not seen among Pleistocene or recent populations of H. sapiens.

I find it rather easy to distinguish a modern human skull from that of an ape or monkey.

RITUAL CUT An almost 6,000 - year - old human skull from southern Russia contains a large opening at the back of the head created by cutting away bone with a sharp instrument.

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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

The skull, though weathered from millennia of brutal heat and scouring sands, is unmistakably human.

Over seven months, a team at the Louisiana Department of Justice in Baton Rouge tracked human skulls being advertised on the site and found that 237 people listed 454 skulls, with opening bids ranging from one cent to $ 5500.

It was clear from the long straight lacerations that the human skulls had undergone some sort of primitive brain surgery.

«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).

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.»

Skull relevations One of the biggest surprises in the attempt to figure out human evolution comes from a crushed skull dug up in the Sahara in 2001.

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.

The skull was unquestionably from H. sapiens, says Hershkovitz: it was similar in shape to those of earlier African and later European humans.

When the team compared these scans with those of the skulls of Homo sapiens from temperate regions, they found Neanderthals» sinuses were only bigger because they had bigger faces; the two species» sinuses had the same relative size relationship (Journal of Human Evolution, DOI: 10.1016 / j.jhevol.2010.10.003).

A 13 - million - year - old infant's skull, discovered in Africa in 2014, comes from a new species of ape that may not be far removed from the common ancestor of living apes and humans.

Morton's aim in measuring skulls from a diverse range of human groups was not to get at intelligence differences, as is sometimes claimed.

Richly illustrated throughout, with most of the fine photographs having been taken by the authorss from Johanson's Institute of Human Origins who dated the Java skulls.

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.

Researchers have clashed over the bones known as LB1, recovered three years ago from the Indonesian island of Flores: Some believe it was a stunted human because of its grapefruit - size skull.

The ancient cow's skull opening, shaped almost in a square and framed by scrape marks, resembles two instances of human skull surgery from around the same time in France, say biological anthropologists Fernando Ramirez Rozzi of CNRS in Montrouge, France, and Alain Froment of IRD - Museum of Man in Paris.

Raul's group drew from published properties of human baby brains and skulls and pig brains and skulls — markedly similar, he says, in biophysical properties.

The first analyses of skull data from the most recently discovered species of early human suggest that its brain was surprising sophisticated

What's more, the outer margin — the side of the orbit furthest from the nose — is recessed much further back in the human skull than in other ape skulls.

Curnoe nicknamed the bones the Red Deer Cave people; he and his colleagues compared them with modern and contemporary human remains from Asia, Australia, Europe, and Africa, as well as with Pleistocene East Asian hunter - gatherer skulls.

A 13 million - year - old skull from Kenya, described in August in Nature, hints at what a common ancestor of all living apes (including humans) looked like.

The team analyzed the projection of the brow ridge, facial shape, and cranial volume of 13 early Homo sapiens that lived before 80,000 years ago; 41 modern humans that lived 38,000 to 10,000 years ago; and skulls from a global sample of 1367 recent humans.

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.

Two grooves identified on an endocast from a partial H. naledi skull frame the language - related section of Broca's area in humans today, Hurst said.

The black cables emerging from the white turban wrapped around his skull hint at his role in investigating a truly profound question: How do thoughts form in the human brain?

A new mathematical analysis tool developed by researchers from the Theoretical Biology Group at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the University of Valencia has allowed a deeper understanding of the anatomy of the human head thanks to describing the skull as an extended network structured in ten modules.

Gurche infers the size and shape of soft tissues in the face from skull dimensions and estimated body weight, using comparative measurements gleaned from the decades he has spent dissecting humans and ape species.

Brown knew he was looking at something strange, something that would challenge our ideas about human evolution, as soon as he laid eyes on that first skull from Liang Bua Cave.

Fragments of fossilized jaw, skull, and tooth, unearthed shortly before World War I from gravel beds, 45 miles south of London, were not, as had been believed, the remains of an aberrant part - human, part - ape «missing link».

It is similar in shape to recent African skulls as well as to European skulls from the Upper Paleolithic period, but different from most other early anatomically modern humans in the Levant.

Jason Lee / Reuters In the next few months, surgeons in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou will carefully drill through the skulls of people with Parkinson's disease and inject 4 million immature neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells into their brains.

One area Ross's lab focuses on is what we can learn from the human skull.

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).

The fact that dozens of erectus fossils exist and that their skull anatomy in particular is quite different from modern humans is concealed.

There are no unambiguous archaic sapiens in Asia but two recently - discovered skulls from China seem to have the flattened erectus - type foreheads, yet their ECV's are apparently close to the modern human average and their faces are flatter than the usual erectus specimens.

Much of Morton's fame derived from his «American Golgotha» — a collection of nearly 1,000 human skulls (Figure 2) he obtained from around the world [6].

Bunney reported in 1986 that a human skeleton dating from c. 280kya in China antedates an erectus skull from Zhoukoudian (the Peking Man site) near Beijing by 50,000 years.

The brilliant low - budget sci - fi action flick that launched James Cameron's career begins its mirror dance of destruction and destiny with a tank - bot crushing human skulls in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and two nude figures materializing from blobs of animated lighting in mid-1980s Los Angeles.

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].

Opening the front flap reveals actual graphics from the game, specifically a pixelated peek at the trophy case aboard the Predator ship, which in addition to several human skull - and - spine sets houses the skull of the Yautja's second favorite prey — a Xenomorph warrior.

Dance Boldly Through the Storm will feature a set of bonded bronze skulls that have been cast from a mould made from a real 12 - month - old human skull.

(2016), step away from figurative depiction altogether, whereas others, like The Funny Pleasures of War (2015 - 16), bring in fragments of the human body or iconographic symbols like the skull.

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.

You can view more documentation from the inaugural exhibition, including this massive installation of hyperrealistic human skulls by Ron Mueck, on the National Gallery of Victoria's website.

It is that of an infant estimated to be between 40 and 42 weeks of age and was purchased as part of a rare collection of 19th century human skulls and skeletons from Leiden that originated from the Delft pathology collection.