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"Oh hi Mark" just makes me think of Severance and there's no way Patricia Arquette looks like this!
This is what the Trojan War was fought over
The face that launched a thousand ships.... away from it.
Today, some women have very masculine features. You can find some of them on fashion show runways, for whatever reason.
This, by chance, is a skull with such features. This doesn't mean all women then had masculine features, the same way not all women today do.
Or maybe the scientist just sucks at portraits
High fashion models aren’t meant to be facially attractive. That’s what Victoria secret is for. High fashion requires a body as canvas (so be very very thin). A fierce look and walk.
This is Andrew W.K…
No, I'm certain it's John Travolta from Battlefield Earth.
No, no, John Travolta wasn't from Battlefield Earth, you're thinking of Keanu Reeves. John Travolta is from The Matrix.
Actually Keanu Reeves was in Terminator 2, you’re probably thinking about Matt Damon as Jason Bourne
I'm no anthropologist but wouldn't her skin be a lot darker? This feels like people making depictions of Jesus look like a modern European person.
Like everything in life, tl;dr it's complicated, but no doubt she got a little more sunkissed lmao.
Yeah, one thing I've learned about human genetics is that the markers for skin color are wonky and unpredictable.
I just feel like it'd be safer to assume she was a lot darker given the recency of African diaspora, but again I am far from an expert so I could be totally off.
Idk about this team tbh. Avgi is certainly not impressed.
Idk about this team tbh
They should have stopped at Bottom middle, the one between Special Agent Albert Rosenberg and guy in bar bathroom that wants to fight his reflection.
well they always taught us in history class how greece was the hi mark of ancient culture.
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this feels like one of those shrink wrapped dinosaur situations. like they arent doing a good job estimating how her soft tissue would have been distributed at all. why are her eyebrows so low, why are her cheeks so lean, why is there so much tissue below her lips, why is her hairline so high and with a bit of a widows peak? it feels like they put a mans tissue distribution on a womans frame completely uncritically and called it good.
edit: i think the harsh drop lighting theyre displaying this under is making it way worse too. it might not look quite as bad with softer more diffuse lighting.
Yeah this looks completely wrong to me... Like sure, they would look very different, but they wouldn't be indistinguishable from men. Even from an evolutionary perspective that's just silly.
Even today we have women that have "facial bone structures we associate with masculinity" as they describe. It's not like we are working blind and trying to reconstruct a dinosaur or an extraterrestrial. Though maybe for some scientists, women are similarly rare.
I looked up some examples of "masculine women faces" online in 2 minutes. Even though they look "masculine", they clearly don't look like Gigachad or whatever this reconstruction is.
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Would they look very different though? Even 9000 years ago, they would still have mostly human DNA.
Nobody would be this mean about her appearance if she wasn't being lit in the most unflattering possible way
I think someone mixed up the storage, and they accidentally recreated John Travolta from the Battlefield Earth movie?
It’s been a while since I’ve studied it, but IIRC skeletons of early humans show in general more traits we view as masculine, like stronger chins and a more jutting brow line, even in female skeletons. It was even more pronounced in male skeletons, but this is still pretty mild sexual dimorphism even among great apes (think male vs female gorillas, for example).
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This is from the movie about the making of Battlefield Earth with John Travolta played by Val Kilmer
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It's OK, she's actually a 9000-year-old shapeshifting dragon.
I can suddenly see why you would fight a war over Cleopatra or Helen of Troy if this is the average local option.
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