Fwd: Not P but Moby-Dick (4)

[Mark Kohut]

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From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: Not P but Moby-Dick (4)
To: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>


Shaped like a/the globe and leaden.

Modern humans have large and globular brains that distinguish them from
their extinct *Homo*relatives. The characteristic globularity develops
during a prenatal and early postnatal period of rapid brain growth critical
for neural wiring and cognitive development. However, it remains un

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 7:30 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The following excerpt is from Chapter 16:
>
> still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their
> subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a
> thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or
> a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly
> superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who
> has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the
> remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north,
> been led to think untraditionally and independently;
>
> What does "globular" and "ponderous" mean here?
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