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  • He did not think, but it did not frighten him to operate on pure instinct He held the jawbone's frozen, prehistoric grin up in front of him, holding his other arm out stiffly, first and last fingers poked out in the ancient forked talisman, the ward against the evil eye.

    The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982

  • A family tree built from these sequences revealed that the jawbone's owner was remarkably similar to the last common ancestor of brown and polar bears, sitting just at the point where the two lineages diverged.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Ed Yong none@example.com 2010

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