cranium
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The bumps and contours of the cranium were once believed to reflect the intellectual power and moral strength of the mind inside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
"And yet it preserves a highly derived cranium with unexpected anatomical innovations."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 3, 2026
The university removed that cranium from the reburial so it can be assessed for return through NAGPRA.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
If the device works as expected, it will answer longstanding questions about the impacts of microgravity inside the cranium.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
His pronounced cranium indicates his future deftness with mathematics and mechanical things.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Beginning in the 1830s, physician and professor Samuel George Morton collected about 900 crania, and after his death the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia added hundreds more.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
To construct the feeding behaviours and determine the relation between the mandible and trunk, the team examined the crania and lower jaws of the three groups, sourced from three different museums.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
“The placement and treatment of the crania are distinctly different from the burial tradition” in the hunter-gatherer graves located 330 feet to the north, Kjellström said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2018
However, Rosas's team says that his skull differs slightly from modern crania.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 21, 2017
Specimens from the general area of Matagorda Bay and Lavaca County grade into taylori in characters of color and crania.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. Packard
Humans evolved wisdom teeth to better grind down hard foods like raw plants, tough meats and nuts, but as our diets became softer and our brains bigger, our species developed larger craniums and smaller jaws.
From Salon ● May 7, 2024
The vividly hued mixed-media craniums are grown-up 3D cartoons that suggest the visages of superheroes or supervillains.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
The Maori and Moriori skeletal remains, including skulls without mandibles, craniums, loose mandibles and maxilla fragments, were largely collected by Austrian taxidermist and grave robber Andreas Reischek from 1877 to 1889.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2022
Armed with their unparalleled craniums, Homo sapiens created sophisticated bone and stone implements, including weapons and tools, and also mastered the use of fire.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
How startled he must have felt, how frightened even, at seeing four huge, copper craniums leaning over him!
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by F. P. Walter
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