The Description of the Human Body soul. A sick or injured body does not do what we want or moves in ways we do not want. He believed the death of the body stopped it from being fit to bring about movement. This did not necessarily happen because the soul left the body. René Descartes believed the body could exist through mechanical means alone. This included digestion, blood circulation, muscle movement and some brain function. He felt we all know what the human body is like because animals have similar bodies and we have all seen them opened up. He saw the body as a machine.
Red Hills Fissure Pleistocene. The abundant fossil remains of the Jamaican Coney ("Geocapromys brownii") found there have enabled the construction of a life table for that species. Analysis of fluorine uptake in the fossil bone has allowed the time-span of the deposit to be dated to about 25–40 thousand years ago. Fossil remains of the extinct Jamaican flightless ibis ("Xenicibis xympithecus") have also been found there. Red Hills Fissure Red Hills Fissure is a palaeontological site at the Red Hills in Saint Andrew Parish of south-eastern Jamaica. The Red Hills Fissure is a karstic solutional feature, with a vertical extent of about 8