Sunday 18 November 2012

Skull Ideas

The muscles of the jaw are rather large on animals both herbivore and carnivore.
This is important for the Zygometic Arch or cheek bone as both the Masseter and Temporal muscles influence its size and shape. Coloured are ideas on visual fields.
I want to make sure a human size brain could fit into something like a horse's skull but make sure that the mouth and nasal pathways were still usable. By enlarging the Occipital or base of the skull can accommodated this. The brow ridge may also help but it means losing the flat Frontal bone that give herbivores their distinctive sloping head shapes. 


4 comments:

  1. You sir, are the last word in anthro anatomy and i salute you! It is this slow, sleady, planned and thorough approach that I lacked and find irresistable about your work. more! More I say!
    I can't wait for the anthro anatomy textbook :3

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    1. is there not supposed to be a sagitall crest on the skulls? can there be a occipital crests with a sagitall?

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  2. On the subject of the eye fields: dark blue is area of focus, right?

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