This link should take you to the open access supplemental file. It’s on page xiii, I believe. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/suppl/10...

What's the role of the pretty spider?

No idea why that image pops up; you’d have to ask the journal lol.

Ah, I see that it's the cover for that issue.

Thank you! 😊 I didn’t expect him to look like someone I’d see on the streets of Toronto today. Cool! It exposes our bias that we’re evolved when humans really haven’t changed in tens of millennia.

We really haven’t changed that much biologically in about 50,000 years! Of course, the facial reconstruction is an artistic imagining (rooted in anatomical science), so who knows what this guy actually looked like.

Yes! I thought the beard and hair added imaginative touches that felt realistic. I suspect harder living would age and scar him more than what we’re used to seeing today.

For a moment, I thought, ‘Well, that looks a hell of a lot like a spider - not at all what I expected.’ It’s early. But the reconstruction is really interesting - the giant jaw just seems to disappear and he looks exactly like my neighbor. I expected a hulk type of guy.