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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
Spent October "break" getting caught up on research. Here's Krapina 3, different virtual reconstructions of its endocast put its #brain size at around 1275 cc #FossilFriday