Predictably grim proceedings began with conjoined twins Bette and Dot (series old guard Sarah Paulson, superb as both), whose unique cranial plurality soon came to the attention of Jessica Lange's freak-show proprietor Elsa Mars.
Only the hadrosaurs, with their distinctive cranial crests (now known to have been horns of an acoustic rather than a combative variety), seem to differ between males and females.If Evan Saitta of Bristol University, in England, is right, however, another well-known dinosaur was indeed sexually dimorphic.
Dr Tyler now believes that tDCS may not directly stimulate the brain at all but instead modulates cranial nerves in the skull, like the headache-busting TENS technology.
Rapid-prototyping machines have, for example, shortened the casting process for facial and cranial plates used in reconstructive surgery, says Robin Richards at the department of medical physics at University College, London.
And like many others, he is not mollified by recent American concessions: not to send South Korea beef that is more than 30 months old, or to sell it some parts of a cow, such as the cranial bone, brain, eye and spinal cord.
Her cranial surgery in 2013 may have changed her plans.
The soft palate is controlled by cranial nerves in other words, nerves that do not pass through the spinal cord.
They have developed a device that can act as an ECG or its cranial equivalent, an electroencephalograph without even touching the skin.
TENS devices use a different waveform to tDCS and target cranial nerves rather than the brain itself, but they rely on a similar controller and head-mounted electrodes.
In 2000 the Koobi Fora Research Project, which Leakey and her daughter codirected, had found fossil cranial specimens of H. habilis and H. erectus that dated from about 1.5 million years ago in an area east of Lake Turkana.
The corneal reflex is rapid (0.1 second reflex time) and is the last to disappear in deepening anesthesia, impulses being relayed from the nucleus of the fifth nerve to the seventh cranial nerve, which transmits the motor impulses.
