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...York University's Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, a center that combines surgery with psychology and speech therapy to mend the psyches as well as the features of the disfigured; of a heart attack; in Southampton, N.Y. The University of Paris-trained Converse pioneered many surgical techniques, including cranial-facial restructuring, edited a seven-volume text on reconstructive plastic surgery known in the field as "the bible...
...there was probably extensive visual and vocal communication between the member animals. Such socialization would have put stresses on them, requiring them to be more assertive, courageous and competitive than if they had lived by themselves-which in turn could have fostered brain growth. Indeed, says Kay, Aegyptopithecus' cranial capacity of about 30 cc (1.8 cu. in.) was larger, relative to its body size, than that of any of its mammalian contemporaries...
...what have they got? Let's start at the beginning of Western civilization. First came Sumeria. Then Star Trek. On September 8, 1966, after four million years of cranial evolution, man (and Desilu Studios) produced a television series about "Space, The Final Frontier," an NBC show featuring a starship called the USS Enterprise that could on a good night travel quite a few times faster than the speed of light, and a crew of 430 human and other beings ("carbon-based units" as they came to be called) determined to "explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life...
...mightily over the years to satisfy his addiction. He was subjected to thousands of X rays and blood tests, his abdomen was crisscrossed with scars where doctors made incisions during exploratory operations. His spine was punctured 48 times to get spinal fluid in order to check for evidence of cranial hemorrhaging or spinal disorders. "How much Mr. Mcllroy cost the health services," the doctors wrote, "will remain a matter for conjecture. The sum must run into six, possibly seven figures...
...benign" parietal rules, all blond hair and blue eyes and a sure guarantee of The Big Coin after graduation. About a third of the way through it hits you: you flip to the picture on the back jacket and, with his brow ridge and prognathous jaw and small cranial capacity--that's where you've seen him before! National Geographic...