You can tell the diagram is fake because the female skull doesn't have a pink bow permanently attached to it
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The fact it's doing the goddamn DreamWorks face is the cherry on this
The male skull is noticeably flatter at the front because cavemen tended to punch each other in the face a lot
In the physical anthropology world we'd use terms 'grassile' and 'broad' to avoid gendering a piece of bone. Unless there'a fleshy matter or a baby skeleton wedged in the pelvis, (and even then...) you're not going to be absolutely sure.
a fleshy matter or a baby skeleton wedged in the pelvis
Sweet Lord Jesus
The fossil record hears ye. The fossil record don't care.
I hear that's one of the reasons for facial hair too
They can tell because the CAD models used for Male and Female skull creation are notably different.
The whole basis of phrenology is just the names of the CAD files.
males-whites-ubermensch.stp
female-.stp
They never stopped to check if the files are actually different aside from the name though...