The Making of Man

We took the whole family to New York City for a weekend and one of our stops was the Museum of Natural History. There was a section on Neanderthals with a video showing some anthropologists constructing a model of a head from a skeleton remain. The video showed the detail they used in making a replica skull and then layering on material that mimicked the muscles, the skin and so on. It was pretty detailed and in the end rather lifelike.

My six year old watched it, turned to me, and asked, “Dad, is that how they made me?”