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  Articles - Talus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In mountaineering, climbing, geology and archaeology, talus is small broken rock found on mountain slopes and at the base of cliffs.
Talus was hit in the ankle with a stone and bled to death.
In anatomy, the talus bone of the ankle joint connects the leg to the foot.
www.fineshoes.net /articles/Talus   (152 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Human Race
On this line Schwalbe traced the frontal angle (that between the tangent of the frontal bone at the glabella and the glabella-inion line), the bregman angle (bregma-glabella-inion); the lambda angle (lambda-inion-glabella); the opisthion angle (glabella-inion- opisthion; the opisthion is the posterior border of the occipital foramen).
The bones of the skeletons indicate a bulky, relatively low-sized frame.
The skull of the Malay race is brachycephalic; the parietal bones project strongly sidewards, the nose and cheek-bones are flat, and the upper jaws slightly prognathous.
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 Talus - TheBestLinks.com - Anatomy, Climbing, Greek mythology, Latin, ...
Talus, Anatomy, Climbing, Greek mythology, Latin, Mountaineering, 1911...
Talus (which is Latin for ankle-bone), has several meanings:
in mountaineering and climbing, talus is small broken rock found on mountain slopes and at the base of cliffs.
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 Chapter 13 Ancient Man Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The bones were examined by both scientists and evolutionists, and for a number of years all agreed that these were normal human beings.
These human bones totaled 14 skulls in varying conditions, 11 jawbones, 147 teeth and a couple small arm bone and femur fragments, along with stone tools and carbon ash from fires.
In 1983, *Jeremy Cherfas said that Lucy’s ankle bone (talus) tilts backward like a gorilla, instead of forward as in human beings who need it so to walk upright, and concluded that the differences between her and human beings are "unmistakable" (*J. Cherfas, New Scientist, (97:172 [1982]).
www.evolution-facts.org /Ev-Crunch/c13a.htm   (7790 words)

  
 TALUS (Lat. for the " ankle-bone ") - Online Information article about TALUS (Lat. for the " ankle-bone ...
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BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
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