Meet the 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman whose friendly face is sparking a scientific debate
Scientists can’t yet tell how soft tissue overlayed bones, so this reconstruction is inevitably based on artistic licence.
Cultural historian and writer, specialising on emotion, gender, medicine and the body. Professor in History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at King's College London, and Director of the Centre for Technology and the Body. Principal Investigator on the project Interface, that explores the meanings of the human face. Books include Matters of the Heart (2016), This Mortal Coil (2016) and A Biography of Loneliness (2019) TED speaker.
Scientists can’t yet tell how soft tissue overlayed bones, so this reconstruction is inevitably based on artistic licence.