Thursday, September 24, 2009

Early Human Wanted Poster

Here are some pictures of what the various hominids might have looked like.  You can use these for reference when drawing your "Wanted" poster.

Some older hominids had a prognathic shaped jaw, while the more modern hominds had a parabolic jaw.  If your hominid had heavy brow ridges, their brows stuck out from above their eyes.  Many hominids had a brain crest.  That is where the mandibular (jaw) muscles attached to the skull (on the top of the head).  As humans became more human, the brain crest flattened out because our jaws no longer needed to chew roots.  Strong jaws equal a pronounced brain crest.


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