anatomical

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This approach combines anatomical features with fossil ages to estimate evolutionary relationships and divergence times.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

The architect’s mischievous side comes through in countless sketches for his famous gargoyles, which achieve “both anatomical coherence and a sense of demonic vitality.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

We learn here how this type of analytical perspective derived from scientific illustration, in particular from an anatomical drawing of an exploded human skull.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

"So we conducted a detailed anatomical description of this specimen, making comparisons to other early crocodiles to determine if it was another specimen of Terrestrisuchus or if it was something new."

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

In the 1940s and 1950s, Avery, Watson, and Crick identified DNA as the gene molecule, and described its structure as a double helix—thereby bringing the anatomical conception of the gene to its natural culmination.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee