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"A sort of bovine contentment"

Tue, 2010-03-09 07:30 -- John Hawks

Smithsonian magazine has a feature highlighting the fleshed-out hominin reconstructions of John Gurche ("A Closer Look at Evolutionary Faces").

While Homo erectus, which lived at about the same time, was sampling meat, P. boisei remained a devout vegetarian, which is why, Gurche says, “the expression I was going for was a sort of bovine contentment.”

The reconstructions are part of the new human evolution hall at the National Museum of Natural History.

(via A Very Remote Period Indeed)

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