Three million years of human evolution began with this face.
The scientists put a face to an epic name after digitally recreating Lucy’s face, the most famous primates of humanity.
“Seeing Lucy’s face is how to glimpse a bridge towards distant attacks, offering a visual connection with human evolution,” said Telegraph of Lucy’s last update, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions.
Discovered in Ethiopia in 1975 by the American paleontologist Donald Johanson, this 3.5 -foot female hominine skeleton confirmed that our first usual ancestors walked on two legs 3 million years ago.
Lucy-Who was named after the iconic Beatles song, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” opens to Australopithecus Afarensis species and remains one of the best preserved early hominin specimens ever discovered.
The small size of the brain of early woman did not spread the previous theories that a larger brain was essential for the skill required for vertical mobility.
Although Lucy’s face has been reinvented before, Moraes believes that her virtual restart sacrifices an “anatomically consistent representation” or how this prehistoric celebrity could have been.
For Virtual and giving luck to life in a realistic way, the digital magician team “tightened” his face using Lucy skull scan, along with soft tissue data of chimpanzees, whose brain is as large as that of an Aughopithecus Affensis.
Dr. Frankenstein Digital said that it based other characteristics such as hair and skin on “Paleoanthropological descriptions suggestions for adaptation to the hot Ethiopian environment or 3.2 million years ago.”
As seen in the photos published on the Moraes Facebook page, the resulting bust evokes a hybrid between human and ape with the hairdresser of a primacy but with a more favored face, more humanoid and a less joke jaw.
“It has a less pronounced eyebrow crest than in chimpanzees, although even different from modern humans,” said Moraes, who said the team was inhibited by the limitations of “cranial fragments.”
This resurrection of the “Jurassic Park” reflected the remains of real life Lucy, whose superior torso similar to a ape suggested a life adapted to the trees, while the lower torso was designed to walk on two legs, although although its brain.
“Reconstruction, combining science and art, allows us to imagine how it could have been 3.2 million years ago, enriching the public and scientific understanding of our ancestors,” said Moraes. “It is a reflection of technological progress that makes an extinct tangible.”
Lucy is just one of the many famous figures recreated by the graphics expert, who has approximate everyone’s faces, from Santa Claus to King Tut.
