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Stocky, big-brained hominids such as Neandertals needed chest cavities arranged in this way from birth to accommodate lungs large enough to meet their energy needs, the scientists contend October 7 in Science Advances.
Neandertal babies had stocky chests like their parents|Bruce Bower|October 7, 2020|Science News
She also points out that the common hypothesis about why female pelvises are wider than male pelvises — that females need to give birth to big-brained babies — is similarly flawed.
Males Are the Taller Sex. Estrogen, Not Fights for Mates, May Be Why.|Christie Wilcox|June 8, 2020|Quanta Magazine
McConnell can presumably fob this off on his Beltway-brained consultants.
McConnell Campaign’s Huge Duke Whopper|Michael Tomasky|March 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So Murdoch, cold-blooded and lizard-brained, knows he must preserve his own position while somehow ensuring a peaceful succession.
The Murdoch Family Succession Psychodrama|Alex Massie|November 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST

See a timeline of their hare-brained schemes—including sticking credit cards to their foreheads—and assorted misdemeanors.
The Quaids’ Guide to the Fugitive Life|The Daily Beast|October 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He’s just finished shooting a remake of Absolutely Fabulous (that hare-brained, alcoholic ‘90s Britcom).
Arrested Development Meets Saturday Night Live|Isabel Wilkinson|April 19, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The Republican Party seems to have been brained by a heavy cloud followed by an equally heavy sky-blue shape.
The Sky Is Falling|Stanley Crouch|February 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST
It was no brash idea, no hare-brained impulse concocted in one's cups, perhaps.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The bishop and his episcopals can not be hair-brained enough to seek to restore old conditions and assail our liberty.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman|Eugne Sue
Did I not hear that hare-brained youngster declare this evening that money was made round that it might roll.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket|Honore de Balzac
“He is crack-brained, and calls himself the King,” she murmured.
The Proud Prince|Justin Huntly McCarthy
The same act which would proclaim their own treachery would deliver into our hands this hare-brained adventurer.
Tony Butler|Charles James Lever

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