Sentences with phrase «within human skulls»

Not exact matches

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 big skull was not conducive to easy births, and thus a within - group pressure toward smaller heads was probably always present, as it still is in present - day humans, who have an unusually high infant mortality rate due to big - headed babies.

The skull was the fifth unearthed at a fossil - rich prehistoric watering hole in Dmanisi, Georgia; together, the specimens provide a vivid picture of the population of human ancestors at that location and place in time — and the variation within it.

Reductionist biology — examining individual brain parts, neural circuits and molecules — has brought us a long way, but it alone can not explain the workings of the human brain, an information processor within our skull that is perhaps unparalleled anywhere in the universe.

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 saying, as he did in the first edition of his book (p. 162), that the habiline skull ER 1470, at 750 - 775 cm3, is «well within the normal human range» is a wild exaggeration.

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?

Small, annotated drawings of human skulls and bones found within an anatomy book undoubtedly played a role in Still's paintings and drawings of the 1930s.

Within this celebration of human accomplishment, hiding in plain sight, is a distorted skull — a mememto mori, a reminder of the inevitability of death.

The figures within his paintings reflect the conscious mind, interacting with people and going about their business, unaware of the bigger picture - the face or skull - which reflects the unconscious mind - the instinctual, yet hidden, human drives which shape our actions.

As a parallel for the skull in The Ambassadors, which reminds us that death lurks in the midst of human vitality, this distorted head is a reminder of dominant notions of beauty within the buzzing activity of the Black beauty parlor.