What is "centimeters"

Usage examples of "centimeters".

What seems certain is that about five million years ago, there was an abundance of apelike animals, the gracile Australopithecines, who walked on two feet and had brain volumes of about 500 cubic centimeters, some 100 cc more than the brain of a modern chimpanzee.

But the brain of a contemporary woman is about 150 cubic centimeters smaller.

A human brain with a volume of about 1,375 cubic centimeters contains, as we have said, apart from the cerebellum about ten billion neurons and some ten trillion bits.

It had a volume of perhaps thirty cubic centimeters, the size of an average radish, corresponding to a few hundred million neurons and some hundred billion bits-which controlled, among other things, the munching of lettuce, the twitchings of noses, and the sexual dalliances of grownup rabbits.

English collie, with a brain volume of about twenty-five cubic centimeters, and a ratio of brain to body weight about half that of comparable contemporary mammals.

He thought that at the brain volume of Homo erectus-about 750 cubic centimeters, roughly the engine displacement of a fast motorcycle -the uniquely human qualities begin to emerge.

Perhaps the difference was not so much an additional 200 cubic centimeters as some specific developments in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes which provided us with analytical ability, foresight and anxiety.

But if there is a Rubicon anywhere near 750 cubic centimeters, while differences of the order of 100 or 200 cubic centimeters do not-at any rate to us-seem to be compelling determinants of intelligence, might not the apes be intelligent in some recognizably human sense?

He pushed the casing a few centimeters closer to the freight handler, then drew it back, like a chess move he was considering.

A few centimeters apart, proceeding in cautious fits and starts, they made their way down the shallow slope toward the lake.

Her teeth were hooked, and her hands were equipped with claws like great blades all of thirty centimeters long.

The tallest of these ground huggers gave her a platform just a few centimeters off the ground, but she clambered onto the fronds gratefully.

Like an otter, it was covered in sleek black fur, and it had large, powerful back legs equipped with toes ten centimeters long.

Sidewise had his usual detached dreaminess, but he was sitting facing Moon, and Snowy saw how his gaze strayed over the curve of her hip, the centimeters of calf she showed above her boot.

Disappearing around a massive slab of solid black, he returned moments later carrying a length of silvery cord a couple of centimeters in diameter.