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  2. 1992 Landers earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The magnitude 5.7 Little Skull Mountain (LSM) earthquake the following day, June 29, 1992, at 10:14 UTC near Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is also considered part of the regional sequence and may have been triggered by surface wave energy produced by the Landers earthquake. Foreshock activity, in the form of a significant increase in micro ...

  3. List of human evolution fossils - Wikipedia

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    (The Black Skull) 2.50 Paranthropus aethiopicus: 1985 Kenya: Alan Walker: BOU-VP-12/130 [24] 2.50 Australopithecus garhi: 1997 Ethiopia: Yohannes Haile-Selassie: STS 71 [25] 2.61–2.07 Australopithecus africanus: 1947 Sterkfontein, South Africa: Robert Broom and John T. Robinson: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History STS 52: 2.61–2.07 ...

  4. Foramen ovale (skull) - Wikipedia

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    The foramen ovale is used as the entry point into the skull when conducting a Percutaneous Rhizotomy using either radio-frequency ablation, balloon compression or glycerol injection. These are performed to treat trigeminal neuralgia. In the procedure, the electrode is introduced through the cheek of an anesthetized patient and radiologically ...

  5. Phrenology - Wikipedia

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    Since the skull ossifies over the brain during infant development, external craniological means could be used to diagnose the internal states of the mental characters Through careful observation and extensive experimentation, Gall believed he had established a relationship between aspects of character, called faculties , with precise organs in ...

  6. Human brain - Wikipedia

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    [266] [267] As brain size increased, this altered the size and shape of the skull, [268] from about 600 cm 3 in Homo habilis to an average of about 1520 cm 3 in Homo neanderthalensis. [269] Differences in DNA, gene expression, and gene–environment interactions help explain the differences between the function of the human brain and other ...

  7. Sahelanthropus - Wikipedia

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    With the skull as the holotype specimen, they were grouped into a new genus and species as Sahelanthropus tchadensis, the genus name referring to the Sahel, and the species name to Chad. These, along with Australopithecus bahrelghazali , were the first discoveries of any fossil African great ape (outside the genus Homo ) made beyond eastern and ...

  8. Antler - Wikipedia

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    Antler comes from the Old French antoillier (see present French : "Andouiller", from ant-, meaning before, oeil, meaning eye and-ier, a suffix indicating an action or state of being) [3] [4] possibly from some form of an unattested Latin word *anteocularis, "before the eye" [5] (and applied to the word for "branch" or "horn" [4]).

  9. Kull of Atlantis - Wikipedia

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    As of 2012, three mini-series were published, Kull, Kull: The Hate Witch, and Kull: The Cat and the Skull. [6] Dark Horse also re-published the Marvel stories into two different Kull collections. The Marvel color comics were collected into five volumes titled The Chronicles of Kull , and the Marvel magazine format, black and white stories were ...