670 descendants of Concestor 13, appropriately arranged.
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a good while, ever since the release of a paper which hit the science headlines last year. For the first time to my knowledge, researchers have tried to do professionally what I, together with a graphic illustrator, did in an amateur fashion for The Ancestor’s Tale. I’m talking about attempting to reconstruct what our distant ancestors looked like, an intriguing task that also leads to some striking visual possibilities.