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In their research, the scientists found that in contrast with the diet of hard-shelled fruits and seeds at the beginning of the movement of great apes to Eurasia, soft and mixed fruit-eating coexisted with hard-object feeding in the Late Miocene, and a diet specializing in leaves did not evolve.

Use examples of art created from gourds and discuss the many uses for hard-shelled gourds in various cultures.

Mechling follows Nancy Chodorow and William Pollack in positing that demands for early rejection of their mothers burden boys with more fragile identities than girls, and he is a fairly hard-shelled Freudian, At the same rime, Mechling offers a nuanced description of cultural reproduction in practice.

The Marans is renowned for producing a hard-shelled egg.

The lack of rain and the resulting brackish water in the bay have prompted the large hard-shelled ocean crab to move in, much to the delight of sport fishermen.

DeLano, senior vice president, Powertrain, Body, and Chassis, Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America (MEAA; Northville, MI), referring not to some hard-shelled oval object, but to approximately half of an 18,000-[ft.sup.2] building that the company has constructed.

By late summer hard-shelled nuts about 2 inches in diameter form inside protective husks.

Hard-shelled lobsters contain less water and are best for direct heat cooking.

Mouldings Kits come in reusable, hard-shelled plastic cases with a handle for hanging and carrying.

The only other known organisms thought to have sported similar visual apparatus are some of the hard-shelled, segmented trilobite species that became extinct 230 million years ago.

"The soft-shelled boots worn by snowboarders allow a more free range of motion of the ankles than the hard-shelled boots worn by alpine skiers.

Scientists hope to be able to establish that early linguistic ability (perhaps a teenage flair for hyperbole or imaginative use of symbol--"Then I looked down and saw the Baby Jesus lying in a bed of shredded lettuce in my hard-shelled luncheon taco and He beckoned me with the sweetest look to serve Him and be His Bride") is an indicator of a later onset of Alzheimer's.

Green sea turtle is considered as the largest of all the hard-shelled sea turtles and is named because of the green fat beneath its shell.

Chimpanzees use stones to crack open hard-shelled nuts in Cameroon's Ebo Forest, more than 1,700 kilometers (1,000 miles) east of a river previously thought to have prevented the inland spread of this behavior.