Leading-edge digital reconstruction and biomechanical modelling meet the Neanderthal skull: So why the long face?

前沿的数字重建和生物力学建模与尼安德特人的头骨相遇：那为什么是长脸呢？

• 批准号: DP140102659
• 负责人: Prof Stephen Wroe
• 金额: $ 23.69万
• 依托单位: The University of New England
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP140102659
• 关键词: Leading; edge; digital; reconstruction; biomechanical

Perhaps no other extinct species has excited scientific or popular imagination as has our closest cousin, the Neanderthal. Who were these people? Once presented as the archetypal brute, it is now increasingly clear that these powerful, large brained humans were capable of sophisticated behaviours and that most of us carry Neanderthal DNA. Yet many questions remain. One of the most persistent is why the distinctive drawn out, prognathous face? The project will address this question, applying and developing recent advances the applicants have made in digital reconstruction and modelling, maintaining Australian research at the leading edge in the fast growing fields of virtual reconstruction and comparative biomechanics.

也许没有其他灭绝的物种能像我们最亲近的表亲尼安德特人那样激发科学或大众的想象力。这些人是谁？曾经被认为是典型的野兽，现在越来越清楚的是，这些强大的，大脑袋的人类能够进行复杂的行为，我们大多数人都携带尼安德特人的DNA。然而，许多问题仍然存在。最持久的一个问题是，为什么有着与众不同的拉长的、多颚的脸？该项目将解决这一问题，应用和发展申请人在数字重建和建模方面取得的最新进展，使澳大利亚的研究在虚拟重建和比较生物力学等快速发展的领域保持领先地位。