I thought this was neat and I wanted to share.
http://news.discovery.com/human/early-human-ancestors-faces.html
Where’s Sean Hannity?
Human ancestry. Human.
Talk about the Uncanny Valley. (Those first few ape-people… ugh).
Whoever created these is a wonderful artist indeed. Lifelike? Hell, I thought maybe I knew some of them from years ago. The expressions are wonderful.
I am glad that someone is excited about this kind of thing like me 
I wonder to what extent the models are an actual representation of the species, though. It’s my understanding that the remains from these species are extremely fragmented and nothing even remotely close to complete. Did the artist make the models based on scientific descriptions of the features, or did the artist have an actual skull for a model?
I’m surprised it took so long for our noses to develop . . . and I like that little squinty thing going on with the lower eyelids. OTOH, I realize these aren’t bone-related, and are probably educated guesses.
Only guys? What a let-down.
And it completely destroys the meme of “gay by choice”. I mean, what do you do if there simply aren’t any women?
The last one is female.
Yes, but a dyke. 
The first one looks like my Boston Terrier.
Yeah, the noses are SWAGs. No telling when our distinctive Human nose developed. Same with body hair and facial hair. Could be that some of these guys had whacky mustaches and beard tufts, like some primates. Of course, to them, we’d be the ones with whacky facial hair.
I counted 3.
Are all of these our ancestors? Or were some in branches that went extinct? If anyone has a current “family tree”, I’d like to see it.
Neanderthal, for one, is not a direct ancestor. We had a common ancestor with neanderthal, according to recent theory.
The robust jawed forms almost certainly weren’t direct ancestors of modern humans.
Although the latest work suggests that H. sapiens and H. neanderthalensis interbred to some extent, and that 1-4% of the genome of modern, non-African humans has a Neanderthal origin.
IIRC, homo rudolfensis, homo ergaster, and homo heidelbergensis are all common ancestors of ours, in order of their appearance in the slide show.
I swear I’ve seen each of them in my classes at some point. Sweet guys, even heidelburgensis, who had a bit of a chip on his shoulder.