Anthropology Skull Compare and Contrast Essay

Skull Compare & Contrast

After comparing all of the skulls and discussing their similarities and differences with my classmates we noticed how the skulls had very similar traits but each varied slightly from the other and a couple were completely different from the rest.

Skull #1, which we found to be a Homo Erectus had a slight brow ridge, protrusion of the midfacial region, and a large braincase in proportion to the entire skull. It had small dentures, unspecialized teeth, a small jaw in comparison to the rest of the skull and 32 teeth. Skull #2, which was a Neanderthal, had a protruding brow ridge especially on the sides of the face, small unspecialized teeth, and a small jaw compared to its braincase.

Skull #3 was the gorilla and had an extremely protruding brow ridge and smaller braincase in proportion to the head, a large jaw, gaps for canines on the lower and the upper, thick flat front teeth that were worn down from being omnivorous, a sagittal crest, and was a quadraped. The Homo Sapiens skull #4 was very easy to pick out of the group of skulls because it is of our own skull. It has a large braincase in proportion to the skull, the face is flat and practically at a 90 degree angle. There is a continuous row of teeth that are unspecialized, and its denture shape is parabolic. And it's a given that the h. sapien is bipedal.

Skull #5 was an Australopithecus