• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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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.

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      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.

      example photos

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    well they always taught us in history class how greece was the hi mark of ancient culture.

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      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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        Though, even being 9000, they would still be considered a “modern” human, correct? Having evolved roughly 300k years ago, I would think their traits would be far more similar to our own then “early” versions of our species

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          Early might not be the right word, I think I’m mixing it up with pre-agricultural hunter gatherers (I think I’m forgetting a term here, but it’s hot and I’m tired).

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          Yeah but we started fucking Neanderthals way later and there were plenty of inbred diasporas with little outside contact.

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            Also it seems to have taken a bit for human ethnicities and morphology to stabilize. We absorbed a lot of other humans in Africa to the point that it unironically messed up a lot of early data cause early scientists didn’t think fucked to extinction was a valid form of human expansion.

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        SIX fingers…

        If anyone missed the RiffTrax version of that movie it is one of the better ones. You can still find it on the privateer gulf.

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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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    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.

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      Like everything in life, tl;dr it’s complicated, but no doubt she got a little more sunkissed lmao.

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        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.

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    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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      No no, that’s Simply Red after a full-blown bender. He just hasn’t got to his hairbrush yet.