Posted on 05/03/2024 11:17:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
Looks like they used whoopie goldberg as the model.
Did they get it right or did they add a little DEI ?
Funny how liberals think every one of ancient times has pigmented skin.
Finally somebody said it......................
If an “ape”, they were an ape with brains larger than ours that were apparently capable of producing, with Homo Sapiens partners, viable and fertile offsprings. All that suggests, genetically speaking, a branch of our species. Fertile products of interspecies breeding are extremely rare. As are animals that care for injured members and bury the dead with ceremony.
The African Genesis theory was a big thing starting in the 1960s. It seems that has fallen apart as well.
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Neanderthals were rapidly made extinct, along with archaic Homo sapiens, by the invasion of new Homo sapiens, sometimes referred to as Cro Magnon, who were the first "Humans" having power of cognitive thought (i.e., abstract thought including language). This was accompanied by a critical genetic marker known as the D-allele.
As we know, there was a limited amount of cross-breeding; but, it is more likely that was between Neanderthal and archaic Homo sapiens, who then had limited reproductive contact with the new, genius breed.
This invasion of our mentally-modern (as opposed to anatomically modern) human ancestors entered the world in north-central Eurasia somewhere around 40,000 years ago.
So there is some demonstrable success that has been correlated in modern times with actual skeletal remains compared to known living photos or video.
I recall seeing stories about success of “aging” done speculatively with photos of missing crime suspects, to simulate what they might now look like in appearance and help catch them. I wondered if this was an analogue branch of that. Thanks.
Ping.
i’d like to see one of them make a CT model of a living person’s skull and see how close they come to doing that one...
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Not in Woke World.
I thought this was going to be about Helen Thomas.
There used to be a guy at the local county fair that had a computer that would do an aging of you in real time.
You would sit in front of a camera and then the computer would age your picture as far as 100 years old.................
Would Laz hit it?
20 artists would come up with 20 distinctive faces. There’s no “truth” in this beyond “structure”.
That’s a very good idea. But....give them 5 to do....one month apart. We all have patterns...and so do these “artists”.
Interbreeding? 12 pack and in my 20s I’d have hit it.
2 Bagger....................
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