The Human Origins Program: Public Exhibits

Constructing the faces of early human ancestors is a painstaking process that begins with exact casts of the fossils.
From cast to face: John Gurche applies the layers of soft tissue, muscle by muscle, tendon by tendon, fleshing them out to lifelike representations of what we think our ancestors may have looked like. Depicted below is the progression for the bust of the female Homo ergaster KNM ER 3733.
ER 3733: bone ER 3733: with muscles and tendons ER 3733: fully reconstructed
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