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Cormack took the first step. A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, he became intrigued in 1956 by the difficulty doctors had in obtaining X-ray pictures of the brain. Because the cranium is so thick, they could make an X-ray beam "see" an abnormality only by injecting a patient with tracer dyes or air bubbles. When Cormack immigrated to the U.S. that year (he became an American citizen a decade later), he began exploring the physics of how X rays pass through differing body parts. Dividing this passage into cross-sectional slices, he found he could calculate the absorption...
After Havens evened it at one apiece, Burns broke a ties in the crucial third game with a shot to the cranium of the less-than-hirsute Havens (his friends call him 'Yul', leaving the stunned Crimson captain to exlaim "Hey, I don't have any padding!" Burns went on to clinch the win in the fourth stanza...
...science's most audacious hoaxes. For four decades after the announcement in 1912 of its discovery near the English hamlet of Piltdown, the curious fossil with the humanlike cranium and the apelike jaw was believed by many anthropologists to be the long-sought "missing link" between man and ape. But in 1953, after application of new analytic techniques to thefamous skull, the ruse was finally revealed: the Piltdown man, as the fossil was dubbed, was a fraud. It consisted of nothing more than fragments of modern human skulls mingled with portions of a contemporary ape jaw with teeth doctored...
...prevent his book from becoming an endless series of dated skulls and cranium sizes, Leakey goes beyond the cell of paleontology. He uses his fossil discoveries to speculate about the nature of ancestral societies. Leakey pieces together his chips and bones and then tries to pinpoint social and economic attributes of the hunter-gatherer bands that once inhabited the earth...
...question of biological determinism has not been ignored by sociologists--a fact Devore seemed not to realize. Many turn-of-the-century sociologists attributed a myriad of social phenomena to genetics, such as male dominance to cranium size. Many of these theories have been discarded as a result of an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting nurture over nature, but at least the method of investigation used by these now discredited sociologists was sound--that is, the scientists pondering the influence of biological determinism on human beings were indeed those scientists who actually studied human beings and societies...