The three-story building houses some of the most exquisite and intact, or almost complete, examples of mosaics I've seen in different museums around the world.
The curious form of Chilesaurus is an extreme example of mosaic convergent evolution, where different parts of an animal adapt to the environment along the same path taken by other creatures.
Therefore, the nuclei of the SOC may be one example of mosaic evolution (Simpson 1959; Mayr 1963) in mammals which occurs under various evolutionary pressures for the brain in other species as well (Barton and Harvey 2000; Clark et al. 2001).
Musici Ambulanti, on this month's cover, found in the ruins of a structure known as the Villa of Cicero near the city of Pompeii, is one of the finest examples of ancient mosaic making.
Examples of such mosaics are patches of agricultural or forested landscapes.
He used the example of the mosaic of the word "Imagine" in New York City's Central Park, donated in memory of John Lennon, and he quoted the lyrics to that Lennon song in a long footnote.
In somewhat later Alexandrian mosaics made with tesserae (late 3rd or early 2nd century bce), lead threads are still in use for example, in a panel, signed by the artist Sophilos and depicting a personification of Alexandria, that is the earliest known example of miniature mosaic work (called opus vermiculatum, meaning "wormlike work" because of the close-set, undulating rows of small tesserae).
As Kardong (2008) points out, the duck-billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, is a fine example of this mosaic concept.
Examples of this include mosaic tetrasomy of the short arm of chromosome 12 (Pallister-Killian syndrome 49, 50) and mosaic trisomy 17. 51 Finally, the chromosomal aberration simply may not be present in the peripheral blood because of tissue-limited mosaicism.
Many art historians say that it's among the world's finest examples of a ceiling mosaic, crafted long before Michelangelo lay on his back to paint the Sistine Chapel.
