Zach Cofranさんのイラストまとめ

2020 May 29: At around 490 cubic cm, this gorilla's brain (endocast) is flanked by large spaces for massive chewing muscles (red Xs)

2020 May 06: Macaca sinica, brain size ~86 cubic cm. Aptly named the toque macaque, resembles my quarantine self-haircut #InternationalMacaqueWeek

DH 7 Homo naledi hip (light green), reconstructed along with the Lesedi ilium (dark green) scaled up since it's from a developmentally younger kid, mirror-imaged (blue) #FossilFriday https://t.co/g2pZfNtLog

Australopithecus boisei was so romantic 1.6 million years ago, that its spinal cord exited the skull through a heart-shaped foramen magnum #ValentinesDay #FossilFriday

In Anth 211 this week, students will try to virtually reconstruct the Nariokotome Homo erectus cranium, based on the individual bones they digitized last week #FossilFriday

Tinkering with bones and software for Virtual Anthropology methods intensive - this is gonna be a fun semester

Spent much of 2019 thinking about and trying to rebuild Neandertal brain endocasts with my students. Hoping for more of that in 2020!

Stw 232 is part of the brow and forehead of a hominin from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Though just a scrap, it seems to show asymmetric frontal lobes in the brain 3ish million years ago (front and top views):

Type specimens of Australopithecus africanus/prometheus (yellow endocast) and Homo naledi (blue). Similar brain size/shape between very distinct species #FossilFriday

Lower jaw growth in Homo naledi (yellow-green-blue = infant-juvenile-adult) #FossilFriday