brain-case

The obvious difference from Mrs Ples and her kind is that she had a more forward-protruding face and a smaller brain-case.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

The obvious difference from Mrs Ples and her kind is that she had a more forward-protruding face and a smaller brain-case.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

If you had read this, then your complete lack of anything useful inside your brain-case wouldn't have been so obvious to all we other readers.

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The bulging brain-case and the goggle eyes seemed out of place, even in the strange face with its squeezed look.

Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

VI Shaeffer wakes as a protector stage human, very like Truesdale: knobby joints, no obvious sex, expanded brain-case, skin thickened to leather armor, etc.

Down in Flames Niven, Larry 1977

A thousand years ago a man at the university wrote a history of the Time of Trouble and, in the course of his writing, speculated upon the ritual of the brain-case collections and their symbolism, but without reaching a conclusion.

A Heritage of Stars Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1977

The general appearance of the head is doglike, and the brain-case arches little more than it does in the monkeys, but the face projects forward as a long muzzle, with terminal nostrils close together.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

In our survey of human races, we have passed from the Caucasian, with the largest brain and cranium and with straight jaws well underneath the brain-case, to the pygmy with a relatively small brain, with huge projecting jaws and with prominent ridges over the eyes; one step more along that path would bring us to the gorilla or the chimpanzee.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

The proportion of brain-case and face does not differ much from that in the lemurs and even lower forms like cats, for the brain has not increased greatly in total mass, though the cerebrum is more convoluted than in the lower forms.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

The cranium, or brain-case of bone, is relatively larger than the "face," and it bulges upward so as to lie no longer behind the latter as it does in the lower mammalia.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton