A huge, distorted skull appears like a slash across Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1533 “The Ambassadors,” and it’s only when viewed from an angle that the death’s head emerges from the painting in three ...
The 3.5-million-year-old skull of Kenyanthropus platyops. Image: Pavel Švejnar/Wikicommons Three and a half million years ago was the heyday of Australopithecus afarensis. But Lucy’s species may not ...