Word: kins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what was above the neck, the skull confirms earlier constructs based on fragments: A. afarensis had an apelike face with a forward-thrusting jaw and an overhanging brow. The brain was no bigger than a chimp's, but it is now clear that Lucy and her kin were hardy enough to adapt to changing environments and thus to survive for some 9,000 centuries. And unless older hominid fossils are found -- always a possibility -- they will retain their distinction as the first evolutionary step that began to distinguish humans from other animals...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Raphael Joa, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, John Goodman, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton...
...regenerate axons -- the finger-like connections that link nerves to muscle fiber. That's why the standard rehabilitative therapy for polio victims has been to stimulate nerve activity through heat and rigorous exercise, encouraging the healthy nerves to grow into the spaces left by their infected and damaged kin. "Use it or lose it" was the refrain with which therapists urged on a generation of polio kids...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Raphael Joa, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, John Goodman, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Raphael Joa, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, John Goodman, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton...