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...Picasso took a child's toy auto for a head, car spring for a tail and a machined iron sphere for a body, shaped in the rest with clay. The end product: a heavy-footed baboon shape that rates a guffaw, yet carries over an unabashed tribute to mammalian protectiveness and love that can be enjoyed long after the laughter has subsided...
Uncovered in the summer of 1953, the site has been dated in the Upper Paleolithic era, going back 18,000 to 25,000 years. Preliminary excavations, Professor Movius reported, unearthed a very large series of flint pieces and, more important, "better preserved and more complete mammalian material than as been recovered in recent years...
Evasive Tactics. They both seemed happy in a proto-mammalian way, but the curators were ambitious for them. On a warm spring day in 1951, they placed Cecil in Penelope's half of the platypusary. As soon as she saw him, she took evasive tactics, dashing into the water, rolling over and over and scratching furiously with all of her 20 sharp claws. Cecil seemed interested, but decided that he was not welcome. He made no overtures...
...baby's heart beats twice as fast as an adult's, and the different impulses within each beat are faster. Small whales have slower rates than big men. From the heart of Moby Dick, Dr. White hopes to extend his normal readings to the limit of the mammalian scale...
...Jeffreys pointed out that the white man's heart is typically mammalian, with two arteries. Many Negroes have a third large artery supplying the wall of the left ventricle. Better coronary circulation, he feels, explains why Negroes rarely suffer from angina pectoris...