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John Byrne
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Posted: 14 May 2026 at 6:13pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

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But every time I see something like this I am reminded that there is nothing on a skull that conveys the size and shape of the nose or eyes, or the shape or fullness of the lips.

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Michael Penn
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Posted: 14 May 2026 at 6:49pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

I would love to see a test of those who engage in this kind of speculative reconstruction wherein they were "blindly" given skulls of known, photographed living visages and asked to do their best to work, just to see how close -- or far -- they would come.

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 14 May 2026 at 7:23pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

Right! Or when they extrapolate how a child that went missing long ago would look as an adult today. Definitely an extremely sad use case, but it's pretty simple to check on the accuracy by providing childhood photos of current adults.

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