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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Jun 15, 20203 min read
Spanning the Globe VIII
Once again, it’s time for another round-up of all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Mapping Cells Have you used Google Earth? As...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
May 4, 20201 min read
Mammalian Pronation
Behold the cynodont. (Sounds like: sign-uh-daunt.) Cynodonts gave rise to all living mammals about 250 million years ago. Or so. These...
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Apr 21, 20203 min read
Spanning the Globe VI
Once again, it’s time for another round-up of all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Dinosaur Tail This one got a lot of...
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Apr 20, 20201 min read
Circulation
Keep moving! Good blood circulation is vital to health. And movement helps move blood. The heart gets a lot of the credit for...
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Apr 20, 20201 min read
Appropriate Anatomical Knowledge
One thing Jon Zahourek routinely emphasizes is that a model of human anatomy is always close at hand. Yourself. It’s always there as a...
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Apr 14, 20202 min read
Enthusiasm For Details
Isn’t it amazing that we organisms—humans, dogs, bugs, horses, and nearly all others—follow a pattern of development, true to course,...
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Mar 30, 20203 min read
Nuchal Ligament
We can’t recommend a recent episode of the Radiolab podcast—Man Against Horse—highly enough. It includes: · Pigs on a treadmill · Humans...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Mar 24, 20201 min read
Tibiotalar Joint – Range of Motion Humans vs. Horse
Stop and think of all the joints in the human body. For that matter, any mammal. One place to study form and function is in how one bone...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Mar 23, 20201 min read
Brachiators - Arm Travelers
We all have our favorite anatomical words. Just for the way it sounds, brachiator is one of ours. Brake—eee—ay—tor. It rolls off the...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Mar 23, 20201 min read
Origin Size vs. Muscle Size
Don’t judge the size or power of a muscle by the shape of its attachment. It’s a simple point that’s worth remembering. As Jon Zahourek...
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Jan 31, 20202 min read
Tunicate – Part 1
By Jon Zahourek We vertebrates depend on our anatomy to be alive. Once our ancestral fish developed jaws and fins, our anatomy can be...
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Jan 15, 20203 min read
Horses & Us
“How many legs on a horse?” It’s a question Jon Zahourek asks when he wants students to ponder the many remarkable things about...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Jan 9, 20202 min read
Climate & Us
Australia is on ablaze. The ice caps are melting. Glaciers are disappearing. Sea temperatures are rising. Climate change is for real. No...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Dec 18, 20193 min read
Spanning the Globe V
Once again, it’s time for another round-up of all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Leonardo da Vinci You can’t really say...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Dec 10, 20193 min read
Hinnux and Oxter
If you spend any time around an Anatomy in Clay® workshop, class, or professional development of any kind, you know we love our...
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ANATOMY IN CLAY® System
Dec 3, 20193 min read
A Pocket History of Human Evolution
Chances are you don’t come to the Anatomy in Clay® Learning System blog looking for book reviews, but here’s one. We are here to...
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Oct 17, 20193 min read
Spanning the Globe IV
Once again, we are here to round up all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Ape Anatomy We loved this story about Ape Anatomy and...
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Sep 18, 20194 min read
LMU Boot Camp
For the first time this past summer, Joshua Rowe used the CANIKEN® model to teach students in his summer anatomy boot camp at Lincoln...
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Sep 3, 20193 min read
Self-Conscious
The adjective ‘self-conscious’ gets a bad rap. The first definition in Merriam-Webster is “conscious of one’s own acts or states as...
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