Mekon
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]the Mekon
- A hyperintelligent alien being with a huge brain and otherwise atrophied body, the fictional archenemy of Dan Dare.
- 2007, Jerry Dowlen, Lio lios: poems 1968 to 2005, page 60:
- The rocks rise: massy, fissured, dusty-red; / The desert unimagined Mekon-green; / The Scottsdale panorama soothes my head, / When tortured with the brutal, shattered scene.
- 2010, Jeremy Taylor, Not a Chimp: The hunt to find the genes that make us human:
- Allometry is a Mekon theory of human cognition, after the melon-headed Mekon from Mekonta, Dan Dare's super-intelligent adversary in the sci-fi comics of the 1950s. But Preuss, and other evolution-minded neuroscientists, argue that it is time to ditch this 'bigger, better but similar' notion of brain evolution […]