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  • Franken asked if the word "privacy" was there ... in a clean and well-thought out point making mince-meat of the small-brained Republican attacks so far.

    Sotomayor stumped 2009

  • Franken asked if the word "privacy" was there … in a clean and well-thought out point making mince-meat of the small-brained Republican attacks so far.

    Sotomayor stumped 2009

  • The popularity of this sort of rhetoric among small-government types mostly illustrates how small-brained they are.

    Matthew Yglesias » Congress Is Very Important 2010

  • Though she may be correct to observe that black people are clearly small-brained and genetically programmed for inferiority, white people also have tendencies that distinguish them as a race: They tend to put their foot in their mouth.

    Khanh Ho: Words of Advice to Young People: The Case of Stephanie Grace 2010

  • Taken together, the partial skeletons made public so far combine primitive characteristics of the burly, small-brained predecessors to the human family, known generally as Australopithecines, and advanced features more typical of the modern genus Homo, the broad family classification that encompasses the direct ancestors of modern humankind.

    New Face in Human Family Tree Robert Lee Hotz 2010

  • Taken together, the partial skeletons made public so far combine primitive characteristics of the burly, small-brained predecessors to the human family, known generally as Australopithecines, and advanced features more typical of the modern genus Homo, the broad family classification that encompasses the direct ancestors of modern humankind.

    New Face in Human Family Tree Robert Lee Hotz 2010

  • Taken together, the partial skeletons made public so far combine primitive characteristics of the burly, small-brained predecessors to the human family, known generally as Australopithecines, and advanced features more typical of the modern genus Homo, the broad family classification that encompasses the direct ancestors of modern humankind.

    New Face in Human Family Tree Robert Lee Hotz 2010

  • One might have expected that such small, and small-brained, fossils would be dismissed as apes.

    Australopithecus sediba and the creationist response - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Taken together, the partial skeletons made public so far combine primitive characteristics of the burly, small-brained predecessors to the human family, known generally as Australopithecines, and advanced features more typical of the modern genus Homo, the broad family classification that encompasses the direct ancestors of modern humankind.

    Fossil Discovery Offers New Look at Evolution Robert Lee Hotz 2010

  • "It's kind of like sculpting almost, except the piece is already in the block," he explained as he worked away, using a microscope and glasses with magnifying lenses, on the undersize head of an Ankylosaur, a small-brained, armored dinosaur about 25 feet long (even though this specimen was a relatively diminutive 15 feet) that lived in Mongolia about 70 million years ago.

    Living His Dinosaur Dream 2010

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