New depictions of ancient hominids aim to overcome artistic biases
Reconstructions based on intuition can distort views of what extinct species looked like

New standards for reconstructing extinct hominids could lead to more accurate representations, such as this sculpture of a 2.8-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus youngster known as the Taung child.
G. Vinas, R.M. Campbell, M. Henneberg and R. Diogo