Most of the conclusions were expected, until they examined a tiny specimen that they had found lying on its back in a West Side apartment.
For all the brutal "civilizing" of this tiny specimen of the white man's burden, Mr. Thornhill adores her — both as a reminder of his dead son and increasingly, it seems, for herself, since she may also represent atonement for a mysterious day long ago (and upriver, of course) that he wishes he could take back.
RNA amplification techniques have been developed to address the need for sufficient RNA from tiny specimen for microarray hybridization.
Museum scientists and technicians have recreated the faces and bodies of the famous Lucy skeleton and Neanderthals — even the controversial Hobbits, the tiny specimens of what may be a previously unknown extinct species found recently in Indonesia.
The real things do make many appearances, however, as in Lorraine Walsh's "893 Ants," a plastic-encased collage of tiny specimens with strategic lenses magnifying a select few, and Joy Taylor's map of "Oceania," in which land masses are invaded by armies of Japanese beetles.
In order to apply this technique to tiny specimens, an IR microscope for oblique transmission measurement was developed.
One, at Texas A&M, is big enough that it can scan things up to six feet long, while the micro-CT scanner Summers uses can capture the details of tiny specimens.
Using these techniques, tiny specimens can be enlarged until micrometer-scale features can be seen with the naked eye, and even the most fragile fossils can be safely handled by non-specialists.
The tiny specimens have been suggested to be juveniles and the larger ones adults.
This procedure is unsuitable for formalin-fixed needle biopsy specimens because, following dewaxing, the tiny specimens are easily lost and very difficult to orientate and re-embed vertically.
When the kitchen appliance is switched on, the tiny animated specimen is puréd inside the blender and sent flailing into space, becoming disheveled in the glitchy, vacuum-sealed tornado.
