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The pictures on
this page were taken at the San Diego Museum of Man. As you look at
them, have you ever wondered HOW someone determined from a few bone
fragments that this person was covered with fur? Who is it that
decides "Make it more ape-like" when we have no tissue
samples? Do we
really know
from the evidence found that this is anything even close to how this person
really looked?
As a young adult, was she perpetually hunched over in an apelike
pose or might she have stood just as erect as people do today? Was her
nose really so broad and flattened? Did she really have fur? Did she
have much body hair at all? How much of what we're shown is scientific
truth and how much is just creative expression being exercised to support a particular
belief system or viewpoint?
Would it
have been just as scientific and rational to have reconstructed her
with skin and hair features more like those of your own grandmother? What might
that
presentation of the evidence do to your concepts and beliefs about our
origins?
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