Word: brained
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...that's rapidly changing. Just a year ago, geneticists announced that they had sequenced a rough draft of the chimpanzee genome, allowing the first side-by-side comparisons of human and chimpanzee DNA. Already, that research has led to important discoveries about the development of the human brain over the past few million years and possibly about our ancestors' mating behavior as well...
...paleontologists have accumulated more and more fossils, they have compiled data on a long list of anatomical features, including body shape, bipedalism, brain size, the shape of the skull and face, the size of canine teeth, and opposable thumbs. Using comparative analyses of these attributes, along with dating that shows when various features appeared or vanished, they have constructed increasingly elaborate family trees that show the relationships between apes, ancient hominids and us. Along the way they learned, among other things, that Darwin, even with next to no actual data, was close to being right in his intuition that apes...
...tell, monomaniacal. She can't walk through a toy store, for example, without noticing some object that she can use to vivify her message. In the film she takes particular pride in some molds that can turn Jello into a model of the human brain. She uses these, she says, to demonstrate how dark thoughts and bad words can worm their way into the human cortex. Before the summer session begins, she blesses her camp's fairly sophisticated audio-visual system to make certain the devil doesn't get into it and make it go blooey at some inopportune moment...
...Anna M. Sabasteanski, a Cambridge resident of 25 years, said she attended for the entertainment. “I came because I wanted to see the Republicans get crushed,” she said. “All you have to do is see that one person has a brain and one person has a father-in-law.” Rumors have swirled that Firenze’s father-in-law, Angelo R. Firenze, a Belmont selectman, forced his daughter-in-law into the race to spite his fellow selectman Brownsberger. The elder Firenze responded to the claims, saying...
...Tapes, Chin Up Chin Up, and The National.However, those aforementioned naps were merely charge-up sessions for some of the most joyous thrashing and tastiest grooving that Chicago had seen since the ’68 riots.The four biggest highlights were easy to pick out, and anyone with a brain stem should try and catch each when they next come through the Boston area code.Number one, by far, were recently-reunited-after-forty-years Brazilian legends Os Mutantes.They got top billing on the second day of the two-day-fest, which was exactly where they belonged. More than...