| As grubby and alcoholic as a homunculus can be, he is also a kind, sensitive soul and a musician of some talent. |
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| We've moved from imagining a little homunculus lurking in the sperm to one hiding in the genome. |
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| Even if skin color were taken as a signifier for race, a metonym for some racial homunculus, all it would prove is a trope, not an index. |
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| When I finally met the man, a pinched homunculus with nervous eyes and no eyebrows, he pushed me right out of his office. |
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| Yesterday afternoon I answered the doorbell and came face to face with an evil homunculus. |
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| The unusual body proportions of the homunculus reflect the relative sizes of sensory receiving areas from different body parts. |
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| Microsoft, though a titan in personal-computer software, is a homunculus in mobile devices. |
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| In the caricatured version, preformationism has usually been ridiculed as the belief that a perfect homunculus lies within each sperm or egg cell. |
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| Yet as a group the Towton men are a reminder that images of the medieval male as a homunculus with rotten teeth are well wide of the mark. |
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| And he points out that exactly the same problem applies to how the homunculus would perceive its own qualia. |
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| Also, both the homunculus and golem appear to be extreme, mystical adaptations of medieval alchemy. |
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| The time-honoured idea that the mind is essentially a little man, or homunculus, who sits in the brain doing clever things soon becomes problematic: who does all the clever things in the little man's brain? |
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| What I am affirming here, can upset pseudo-esotericists and pseudo-occultists who are fully convinced by all theories that they read, which assure them that the rational homunculus has a mental body. |
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| Preformation, as even Aristotle spotted, merely postpones the problem, for how did the homunculus get its shape? |
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| The story of the Homunculus is based on the popular idea of preformation, which prevailed for a long time. |
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