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it’s facial reconstructions of prehistoric humans!!
like, look at this part-homo sapiens, part-neandertal man from well over 30,000 years ago:
doesn’t he just look like a dude you’d wanna hang out with? like he probably washes dishes in the kitchen with you, and has excellent weed
what a charming fellow. what stories he probably has to tell. i’d definitely go shoot the shit with him on Contemplation Rock after i’d finished my day’s work carving a bone flute for the autumn hunting ceremony, or whatever
people have been people ever since people first became people, i tell you what
they all had lives and histories and families and friends and dumb gossip and games they played and total bullshit in which they believed wholeheartedly
they all argued about the nature of the world, and of themselves
they all sang songs
they all drew pictures
they all buried their dead in graves, and they buried their dead in graves well before they did a lot of that other stuff. they buried their dead with flowers, with panther claws, with the bones of animals they’d killed, with the bones of family members who had died at the same time or earlier. they buried their dead with their arms folded across their chests
they fell in love
they took care of their old and their sick and their disabled, even when it cost them
they made new things, and worried about what the new things meant for people everywhere, as a whole
Oh I like him he looks like he would appreciate my jokes
This dude would have great stories at a get-together and would bring some really great homemade dip.
I feel like he really digs Lo-Fi Music
This guy was sculpted by Alfons and Adrie Kennis, and their Neanderthal reconstructions are all delightful.
I love the kid in the last picture a lot- they look like a kid, just a little kid who’s done some mischief and is trying not to laugh about it.
I also adore their Lucy- they’ve struck a wonderful balance between the falling angel and the rising ape.
And their Turkana boy- there’s something precious and wistful in those eyes.
But my favorite has got to be their reconstruction of H. floresiensis.
Just look at her. That’s a face of someone who’s lived and seen a lot, but also a face that’s known love and joy and laughter. That’s a face with a soul.
They are all beautiful
What an amazing work, Kennis & Kennis!
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Anonymous asked:
drferox answered:
Most of the stories I know about human doctors ‘having a go’ at veterinary patients have been horror stories.
Even if they are a trustworthy doctor without an arrogance issue, they are highly trained for just one species. They’re not going to be able to replace a dislocated joint, that’s hard enough for me to do with a patient under anaesthesia. They might place a bandage for a short time, a lot of bandaging material isn’t that great when it comes to furry skin, and if they have equipment like flow by oxygen they may use it (certainly paramedics in my experience have done so), but would a human doctor find a vein on a dog or cat? I’m be curious if they knew where to look.
Really I wouldn’t be expecting much beyond basic first aid that a non-medically trained pet owner might do, albeit with more finesse.
Not every doctor owning pets has been a pain in the backside though. I’ve had several as clients which have been excellent, patient, listen to instructions, talk shop, (I quite like the talking shop) and are perfectly able to do extra things like intramuscular injections in an emergency after being shown once.
But not all doctors are created equal. I saw one who didn’t seem to understand pancreatitis, even though it’s really similar to pancreatitis in humans.
As a human doctor; no. Almost certainly not.
We don’t get trained anything about animals; not their anatomy (how can you relocate a joint if you don’t even know what it’s actually like? Animal joints are similar, but mechanically set up differently to ours. Vets use medicines we rarely use, and pets can’t have common medicines we use all the time in humans; plus the dosages would be entirely different; how’d we even know how to dose it. Plus, the signs and symptoms could be very different from what they might be in humans. I honestly think a human doctor would be acting way outside their experience and competency if they were doing anything other than giving basic first aid to an animal (stopping bleeding, for example). We’re just not taught anything about animals whatsoever; so anything we happen to know depends entirely on our engagement with our vets and our interest in animal welfare.
It doesn’t mean we can’t understand things; for example, when my cats have had to go to the vet (sadly, a more often occurrence than I’d like, but nothing too serious), I can furnish the vet with what my concerns are. I’ve worked in paediatrics and geritatrics, and it used to frustrate me when parents or carers brought in a patient who couldn’t answer for themselves, and couldn’t give basic information about them. So I try to make sure we can answer if the pet is eating, drinking, going to the litter tray, feels like they’ve lost weight, changed behaviour; the kinds of things an interested pet owner can spot.
There’s a fair amount of crossover in how conditions work; when things have been diagnosed, I’ve usually been close in my suspicions. But that wouldn’t make me qualified to diagnose or manage my pets; I know that there are illnesses pets get that we might not, or they might present quite differently, and I’m not trained to examine them, test them, interpret those figures in the context of their species and work out what the most common differentials would be in their species. Which is why the limit of my knowledge is to spot enough to know that it’s not right, and go to the vet for help. It’s similar to how we ask different specialties for help. But I disagree with someone upthread who claimed it was about doctors specialising; we don’t all specialise. The specialty of family medicine exists, and general medicine also exists; these are pretty generalised (though not quite as generalised as vets, who also handle surgery and basically every specialty known to human medicine, multiplied across different species). It’s not because our job roles are individually too specialised; some of us are generalists, and most of us have worked in different specialties, at least with the way UK doctor training works. It is more basic than that; it’s simply because human medicine is specialised to work solely in humans.
Even as a doctor, there are huge differences between specialties. Take for example, adult medicine and paediatrics. Kids are human, but their different size and physiology means that we treat them in subtly different ways; we dose their medicines or fluids by weight or surface area, and their size means we have to be a lot more specific with our dosages, lest we overdose them. What’s safe to prescribe can differ hugely based on your age or kidney and liver funciton, amongst many other things. Most adult human doctors feel uncomfortable when they start in paeds for the first time because it’s quite different; I imagine veterinary medicine is much more alien and unsettling to a human doctor. If we did the training, I’m sure we’d pick it up, but knowledge is not replaceable by intelligence or training in other fields. I think that’s where pop culture lets us down; it always shows us smart characters who are experts in one field but magically seem able to ‘figure out’ other fields on the go for plot purposes because they are smart and ‘it’s all pretty similar anyway’. Real life science definitely doesn’t work that way.
I wonder if pharmacists are the only health profession trained in both. The focus is very much on humans, and the basic vet pharmacy education is light, but every community pharmacist has both human and animal patients. We can go on to further specialize in veterinary pharmacy. A couple of my classmates did.
I had a veterinarian as a preceptor for a while as a student. In my experience, veterinarians much closer to comfortable with taking over a pharmacist’s duties compared to a human physician, because they often don’t have a pharmacist available to compound for them and because there are a lot of intricacies in ordering prescriptions for different species— I know that there are different toxicities, for example.
I just think it’s interesting that we do both. I mean I don’t, since I work in human hospitals, but you know, if I was handed a prescription by a vet, I could legally dispense a safe and accurate product (after about four hours, a new subscription to Plumb’s, and two phone calls to my vet pharm bros).
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