anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
ə-ˈna-tə-mist 
1
: a specialist in anatomy
2
: one who analyzes minutely and critically
an anatomist of urban society
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In 1925, 43 years after Darwin's death, anatomist Raymond Dart published a paper describing a fossil from Taung, South Africa, with an apelike braincase and humanlike teeth.
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Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
But this brief explanation remains uncorroborated, and there is another theory about the artifact’s origin: Some say it was donated by the anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith, one of the 20th century’s most prominent Egyptologists.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
According to a statement by its owner, the binding was commissioned in 1682 by an Italian doctor and anatomist identified as Jacopo X, and has been kept by his descendants ever since.
—Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Only a decade after the anatomist Duchenne de Boulogne’s produced the first neurology text illustrated by photographs, Darwin claimed to be the first to use photographs in a scientific publication to actually document the expressive spectrum of the face.
—Jessica Helfand, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
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Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
But this brief explanation remains uncorroborated, and there is another theory about the artifact’s origin: Some say it was donated by the anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith, one of the 20th century’s most prominent Egyptologists.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
According to a statement by its owner, the binding was commissioned in 1682 by an Italian doctor and anatomist identified as Jacopo X, and has been kept by his descendants ever since.
—Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Only a decade after the anatomist Duchenne de Boulogne’s produced the first neurology text illustrated by photographs, Darwin claimed to be the first to use photographs in a scientific publication to actually document the expressive spectrum of the face.
—Jessica Helfand, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
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anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
ə-ˈnat-ə-məst
: a specialist in anatomy
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anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
ə-ˈnat-ə-məst
: a specialist in anatomy
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