Meredith White is a graduate from Texas A&M University. She writes anime feature articles when she's not reading, writing, or playing Dungeons and Dragons. There are seven homunculi, and they all bear ...

The historical myth of the homunculus (a miniature human) allegedly created through alchemy and medieval biological experiments, often involving eggs.

The bizarre-looking ‘homunculus’ is one of neuroscience’s most fundamental diagrams. Found in countless textbooks, it depicts a deformed constellation of body parts mapped onto a narrow strip of the ...

Last week I wrote about a crazy diagram called the “homunculus,” which shows how your body would look if each part were scaled to the amount of real estate it occupies in the brain: Your hands and ...