Both methods are applied to a sample of craniometric data consisting of measurements taken on crania in six geographic regions. |
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The skull of pangolins is smoothly conical, lacking the ridges and crests found on most mammalian crania. |
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The principal season for deer harvest was August to January, based on patterns of mandibular tooth eruption and antlers attached to male crania. |
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But their braincases are small, unlike the elongated crania of the big-brained Neanderthals. |
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The jellyfish had glutinous tendrils wafting appallingly from their crania. |
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Failing to palpate seals' crania to confirm that they were crushed. |
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That is why the biggest laughs, without exception, come when we exit Riley's head and take a quick vacation to the crania — and the mania — of others. |
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Modern humans are distinguishable from, say, Neanderthals by our flatter, more delicate faces and our more globular crania, which encase larger and more complex brains. |
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Examining moulds of hominid crania does not therefore allow us to say with certainty whether this all-important Broca's area did or did not exist in our ancestors' brains. |
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Bison bones, including crania and carcasses buried in sub-mound pits. |
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