Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cole, who testified on human evolution, declared that the Tennessee law had threatened the foundations of academic freedom and the teaching of science. Before the trial scientists had feared that similar laws might be passed in 20 states. After this test case, no other state would risk the ridicule Tennessee suffered, Cole said...
Gradually, under Rosemarie's motherly care, Knorke regained his strength. She fed him on human baby food, soft-boiled eggs and fruit, and she spanked him when he was naughty. He would look at her reproachfully after a spanking, but he generally behaved for a while, at least. He would pick up a rag or a paper towel and try to help Rosemarie when she was cleaning the room. His toilet manners became very good; he always went to the proper corner of the room. He did not try to talk in the human sense, but Rosemarie learned...
Refunds for Readers. Better than 99% of the letters received by the bureau never make the headlines, but get individual confidential replies from Hubble's experts. Hubble himself specializes in "human" cases, i.e., those that sound like good newspaper copy, spends three or four days each week on the personal investigations that have made John Noble the Pictorial's best-known byline...
...fabulous monster with a lion's head, a serpent's tail and often an extra head in the middle of its back. To the botanist, it means a plant combining growths of differing genetic makeup-usually the result of grafting. Now British medical scientists are discovering human chimeras, in which one person has some of the body cells of another, invariably a twin...
...vessels in each pair of twins during gestation. Blood cells in both men contained certain knobs (known as drumsticks, because of shape) usually found only in females. When chimerism occurs in cattle, the female is sterile-a freemartin. Mrs. McK. and Mrs. W. have each had three children, so human chimeras are not freemartins. Despite their originating from separate eggs, they may enjoy at least one of the advantages of identical (one-egg) twins: skin grafts between chimerical twins should "take" permanently...