Apparently, however, Miller has relied heavily on the anatomy in dogs and cats, and he has been criticized for using pathologic human material in his normal study ( Loosli, '38 ).

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy ( zootomy ), and plant anatomy ( phytotomy ).

She demonstrates a remarkably thorough education, including some art courses that involved study of human anatomy through the study of human cadavers.

* Abductor pollicis longus muscle, in human anatomy, a muscle in the hand

In 1543 De humani corporis fabrica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by Andreas Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ).

Note that unlike Hypatia he did not study ' mathematics, philosophy and astronomy ', thus he and his followers came into conflict with the ancient University of Alexandria which pursued all forms of knowledge including science and human anatomy, politics and history according to the model inaugurated by Alexander the Great, the founder of Alexandria.

A more refined art of figure drawing relies upon the artist possessing a deep understanding of anatomy and the human proportions.

The term is a modern word that describes the portrayal of the human anatomy and sexuality with high-art aspirations, differentiating such work from commercial pornography.

Historically, where comparative psychology researches animal behaviour in the context of what is known about human psychology, ethology researches animal behaviour in the context of what is known about animal anatomy, physiology, neurobiology, and phylogenetic history.

The Propædia also has color transparencies of human anatomy and several appendices listing the staff members, advisors, and contributors to all three parts of the Britannica.

In 1878, His begins to engage in serious study of the anatomy of human embryos for his drawings.

Susman posited that modern anatomy of the human thumb is an evolutionary response to the requirements associated with making and handling tools and that both species were indeed toolmakers.

Galen ’ s principal interest was in human anatomy, but Roman law had prohibited the dissection of human cadavers since about 150 BC.

Some cited these changes as proof that human anatomy had changed since the time of Galen.

Galen argued that monkey anatomy was close enough to humans for physicians to learn anatomy with monkey dissections and then make observations of similar structures in the wounds of their patients, rather than trying to learn anatomy only from wounds in human patients, as would be done by students trained by the Empiricist medical sect would.

His scientific work was chiefly concerned with galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, with the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and with experiments for preserving human life and material objects from destruction by fire.

A common example of graphics in use to educate is diagrams of human anatomy.

Medicine at the time of Hippocrates knew almost nothing of human anatomy and physiology because of the Greek taboo forbidding the dissection of humans.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

The Nexus series — genetically designed by the Tyrell Corporation — are virtually identical to an adult human, but have superior strength, agility, and variable intelligence depending on the model.

Erasistratus connected the increased complexity of the surface of the human brain compared to other animals to its superior intelligence.

Invoking " science " and " realism ", the two men derided their " philanthropic " predecessors for believing in human equality and for not recognizing that mankind was divided into superior and inferior races.

With their ideas rooted in Marxism and the 20th century European artistic avant-gardes, they advocated experiences of life being alternative to those admitted by the capitalist order, for the fulfillment of human primitive desires and the pursuing of a superior passional quality.

" For Coke, human nature determined the purpose of law ; and law was superior to any one man's reason or will.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as the “ belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races ” and the expression of such prejudice, while the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines it as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular racial group, and alternatively that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief.

The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as: " the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one ’ s own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others.

" He predicted in his 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, that computers will one day prove superior to the best human financial minds at making profitable investment decisions.

The Nexus series — genetically designed by the Tyrell Corporation — are virtually identical to an adult human, but have superior strength, agility, and variable intelligence depending on the model.

His reason for this strange assertion is that visions are superior to waking reality, as divine is superior to human.

van Vogt's 1940 novel Slan was about a mutant variety of humans who are superior to regular humanity and are therefore hunted down and killed by the normal human population.

The arguments are contested on various grounds, including the position of some religions that human beings were created as superior in status to other animals, and were awarded " dominion " over them, whether as owners or stewards.

The word " super " referrers to " super-sonic " ( ultra-sonic today ) meaning the IF frequency was superior to or above human hearing.

; Non-utopian future: In the OTU, the human race never evolves into a superior state.

The human heart has four chambers, two superior atria and two inferior ventricles.

The true human is an incorporeal contemplative capacity of the soul, and superior to all things corporeal.

Invoking " science " and " realism ", the two men derided their " philanthropic " predecessors for believing in human equality and for not recognizing that mankind was divided into superior and inferior races.

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned ; That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation ; That until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes ; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race ; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained ; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed ; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will ; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven ; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace.

This is the cumulative growth of human capital formation generated by superior quality of manpower in the succeeding generation as compared to the preceding generation.

This third generation is qualitatively most superior human resource in India.

According to signaling theory, education does not lead to increased human capital, but rather acts as a mechanism by which workers with superior innate abilities can signal those abilities to prospective employers and so gain above average wages.

* In Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series, the Starways Congress established the law that no alien culture found is to be provided with superior technology or any information about the human society in order to preserve the natural development of the culture.

Regarding status, dreams about being superior or inferior to others are thought to stimulate the dreamer's determination to improve his status within the immediate human hierarchy, either through the positive physiology of success or the negative physiology of failure.