anatomy

Yeah, I can't seem to find any info on this - neither absolute nor relative to size. For women, it's obviously commonplace.

Greetings, all. I recently read something that implied that humans may have the ability to enter a stupor of sorts; a low level hibernation like what bears do in winter. People have survived a much lowered core temperature than what used to be thought possible. I have no idea about that, but...

Does a newborn baby have eyes that are the same size as his adult eyes? I know that mammilian babies have proportionally larger eyes than adults, but what of the common assertion that our eyes do not increase in size as we, as humans, mature?

An amazing thing has happened in the LightCreatedLife thread: We have actually stumbled upon an honest-to-goodness science question. It's biology so all you astrophysicists might as well go learn why 432 is sacred or something: How long after a human dies can it be said with some certainty...

Here's an animated figure drawing that I thought was really innovative and beautifully done. Anyone who appreciates how skeletal anatomy relates to figure drawing will like this. http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702

Twice in the last week I have read the claim that, contrary to recent statements that race is a social distinction, not a genetic one, the "race" (whatever that means) to which an individual belonged can be determined from an examination of his bones alone, presumably independent of information...

One of my fan's PM'ed me to start a thread about the psychology of addiction. Addiction is one of the oldest and most vexing problems facing modern medicine. Everyone knows what it is and most have experienced it first hand, yet its remains for the most part an untreatable condition. Modern...