Neandertaler

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What scientists believe to know today may be total rubbish tomorrow, so don't take this too serious.

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Just amazing stuff, great to see that old guy !

Neandertaler

brkurt's picture

Very nice work. There are lots of arguments, but what you can easily do to improve the model is to increase the size of the eyes by at least 1.5 times, and for artistic purposes, 2 times. You can pull out the back of the cranium to enhance the occipital bun that was unique to Neandertals. The generally accepted theory is that they were primarily ambush night hunters, which accounts for both the size of the eyes and the much larger occipital lobe (that's why their brains were larger than ours).

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What scientists believe to know today may be total rubbish tomorrow, so don't take this too serious.
Big eyes don't help in the dark. Big pupils do. And more sensor cells per sqare-cm. Quite the contrary, in a cold environment the eye-opening tends to be rather small. And long lashes, like finnish cows.