[GreeniFi]

Interesting article. The final “cliff-hanger” was great and not what I was expecting. But I wondered if there was bias in the collection of skulls. Did researchers, to satisfy their own biases, collect skulls which had a specific appearance?

One thing that I noticed traipsing around German castles in my youth was how ugly, to my eyes, the portraits of medieval castle denizens were. It could well have been that poor diet, lack of antibiotics and similar were the reasons for this.

Writing this, I recall an essay, sadly I can’t remember the writer, who said that adult beauty is really a function of exposure to parasites in childhood.

Final point: I thought big jaws were a result of exposure to testosterone. As is clearly the case when you see the before/after pics or steroid users.