If there is one thing that I remember with mixed feelings from my biology classes, it is Nicolaas Hartsoeker's drawing of the homunculus from 1694, which shows a tiny man curled up inside a sperm ...

This three-dimensional representation of the homunculus shows what a man's body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with directing ...

The Homunculus manga has an interesting role and influence in the modern industry. While Hideo Yamamoto's series ran from 2003 to 2011, his art style and dark and realistic storytelling, combined ...

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhoodfeatured a variety of homunculi to serve as the antagonists, with those homunculi varying greatly in their design. There were only a few rules to these artificial ...

Takashi Shimizu's adaptation of a manga series about a man who gains psychic powers after having a hole drilled in his head manages to be tasteless and timid at once.

In Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the homunculi are artificial beings powered by the Philosopher's Stone and they had some of the best fights.

The somatosensory homunculus is based on the map of our body which is repeated several times in a part of the brain called the somatosensory cortex.

Like Ceann’s telethon, “Homunculus” addresses private pain in a public medium, enfolding, in ways that are more and less fictional, the deaths of Mitchell’s younger brother, former ...

Ender Magnolia offers a lot of interesting abilities with the different Homunculus you can equip. Here are some of the strongest ones.

The classical view of how the human brain controls voluntary movement might not tell the whole story. That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region ...

We all carry in our heads various mental representations of our body—one example is the well-known brain map of our sense of touch, sometimes called a homunculus. New studies show how such ...