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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.

Not exact matches

Piltdown man, discovered in 1911, was widely accepted by paleontologists; in 1953, fluorine tests and X-ray spectrographs showed that a modern ape's jawbone had been skillfully disguised to match a human upper skull.

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.

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

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.

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.

«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.»

«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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

His notion was that human abilities are localised and, when highly developed, could be felt as «bumps» on the skull caused by locally increased brain size.

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.

Bronte, like so many other 19th century intellectuals, was fascinated by phrenology, which explained human personality traits by charting the bumps on the skull.

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.

In fact, in both rats and human cadavers, Buzsáki's team found about 75 percent of currents applied to the scalp never reach the brain, but instead are taken up by the skull, scalp and other external tissues.

Homo habilis is argued out of existence altogether; the famous East African skull, ER 1470 (which some, but nowadays by no means all, authorities class with Homo habilis) somehow becomes a modern human representative.

Although the above two skulls look quite similar, most creationists claim that the first one (ER 1470) is human, while the second (ER 1813) is classified as an ape by the few creationists who even mention it.

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).

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.

Both conditions are characterized by increased proximity of the cranial cervical spine to the base of the skull [25]; however a defining characteristic of human basilar invagination is invagination of the odontoid process of the axis through or towards the foramen magnum, often with compression of the neural tissue by the dens [25].

We pause at a human skull, crystallized by a buildup of calcium carbonate left behind by hundreds of years of standing water.

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.

Though the skulls of the lovers lie side by side in a final conjugal grin, they are ultimately reduced to inanimate objects, empty vessels now bereft of the human spirit they once contained.

Made by skilled artisans, these objects range from beautifully illustrated books to papier - mâché anatomical models, exquisite magic lantern slides, taxidermied animals and bisected human skulls.

Skulls are a recurring image in Zhang Huan's work and stem from the artist's early explorations in performance, inspired by the body and human form.

These days, she's exploring candid photography while working on a series of decorated human and animal skulls, a juxtaposition of morbid subjects and flashy colors inspired by Dia de los Muertos festivals and vintage tattoo art.

Often inspired by pop culture, the motifs and characters in Eddie Martinez's work usually include humans and animals with big staring eyes, clowns, skulls and cartoonish ducks.

«For the Love of God» (2007) Platinum cast of a human skull studded with 8,601 diamonds, including the Skull Star Diamond, created by Damien Hirst (b. 1965)

As a backdrop, a colossal painting of an asbestos - suited figure fleeing a burning Manhattan while being pursued by a human - headed snake, making its way to a garbage strewn New Jersey where a skeleton lies in wait with a gun; in front, a life - size sculpture of a map - skinned boy with flames sprouting from his body races toward a tree hung with animal skulls and a severed head.

«Face Trace» is created by overlapping skull structures of several human races and different parts of the artist's multiple facial expressions.