Human skull

distinctly shaped quadrate bone that connect the upper and lower jaw. Genyornis had a wedge-shaped head to go along with its unusually deep jaw not common in most birds. Genyornis was not the largest dromornithid, scientists are yet to find a fully intact skull of the Thunder Bird, but they have found cave paintings of the large bird giving proof that the Genyornis Newtoni co-existed with…

centuries. Mostly for dissection to learn about the human body, but now they take on a lot of different purposes besides dissection. In the early days of trying to learn about the human body, people were not allowed to use cadavers because of religious purposes. They used pigs, primates, and even their own imagination to draw the human body. Eventually, these other animals and imagination were not working. Andreas Vesalius was the first to dissect a human cadaver (BrainBlogger 2011). Since…

instinct, he bites his prey at the neck, either splitting the jugular vein at the throat or crunching the brain at the base of the skull, and he does not let go” (Dillard 1). As Dillard implied, weasels do what they want when they want, with no hesitation; this wildness goes even further with the strength of its features. “He examined the eagle and found the dry skull of a weasel fixed by the jaws to his throat” ( Dillard 2). The behavior of the weasel is seen as instinct and shows how he…

Introduction What makes us humans? Is it the way we walk? The way we talk? The way we experience certain life events or emotions? How could we possibly be different than other animals? We all share some sort of basic life cycle e.g every animal (including humans) can produce offspring, we are made up of blood and flesh, we breath the same air as well so what exactly makes us so different? Primates vs Humans It is believed by scientists that we share 99% of our DNA with chimps. If we share 99%…

demonstrates that death makes all life equal through the fruitlessness of life on Earth, Hamlet’s interaction with skulls in the churchyard, and the death of nearly every main character at the end of the play. Prince Hamlet spends a majority of the play contemplating his own philosophy…

A new discovery was released in 2016, when a bulldozer operator in northwestern Oklahoma uncovered a Columbian Mammoth skull. Mammoths lived during the Paleolithic Era beginning 2.6 million years ago until roughly 10,000 YBP. This time period was also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, which was later followed by the current stage we live in today, the Holocene Epoch. According to the sixth threshold, 200,000 years ago mammoths were hunted by neanderthals, (early homo sapiens), which were used as…

Owen is renowned throughout history as a poet who wouldn’t steer shy of the truth. This is evident throughout his work as he tells the truth about the utter barbarism of war, without holding back. He is therefore not consequently influenced by propaganda nor the past. The theme of the brutality of war is further enhanced throughout Mental Cases with the use of several uses of rhetorical questions in the first six lines. The first question “who are these?” shows us that the state of the soldiers…

pouring down, the drops were gathered, and tears began to flow, are the action words which develop a conflict or rising action in the story. After that the climax was when the skulls and bones of the human being have been reviled from the banks of the river. As the river says, “these banks tell stories of their own. Human skulls are uncovered from these” (35). The resolution of the story is when most of the infrastructure has been destroyed by the caravan and the river talks about the struggle,…

heterochrony, one region of the body growing faster than those of different species. An example of this would be the growth rate of a human skull versus and chimpanzee’s skull. As fetus both skulls are quite similar, size and shape wise, but as the fetus makes it way to adulthood in humans the cranium grows faster than the chimps; the jaws of the chimps grow faster than the jaws humans. From many studies we have learned that the features of organisms almost always evolve from the preexisting…

is not a clear explanation on where this idea originated, however, many intelligent minds contributed to the ongoing myth, including: Albert Einstein, Pierre Flourens, William James, and Karl Lashley. However, what is known is that the statement, “humans only use 10% of their brain”, is a false one. Chudler’s Research An academic journal written by Eric Chudler explains that the brain imaging technology we have today show how much of our brain is active while performing different tasks. “PET…