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t1_ir28fla wrote

Forensic reconstruction help in modern day murder cases. We can practice on old skulls, 'humanizing' bones, to draw the interests of modern man. On the pathology side, we learn a lot from studying the remains of even the recently dead all the way through early humans to see how diseases mutated, how/if they were treated back then, and to learn how a disease might progress without having to leave current patients to suffer for research.

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t1_ir2bsnn wrote

Has anyone done one on a skull that we have photos of the person, so we can see if it is an accurate representation. Or just artistic interpretation.

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t1_ir2fq79 wrote

Not exactly the same, but the John List case was a pretty compelling use of reconstruction

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t1_ir3b9m3 wrote

That was just some really freaky predictive art. Absolutely flooring how the artist rightly assumed his aging process.

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t1_ir461jh wrote

The eyeglasses were what did me in! I remember an interview with the artist and he had very specific reasoning behind why he chose those frames

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