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

也许没有其他灭绝的物种能像我们的近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蛮人，现在越来越清楚的是，这些强大的、大脑袋的人类能够做出复杂的行为，而且我们大多数人都携带着尼安德特人的DNA。然而，仍存在许多问题。其中一个最持久的问题是，为什么会有突出的、突出的脸？该项目将解决这个问题，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快速发展的虚拟重建和比较生物力学领域保持领先地位。

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.