1.   C. Loring Brace, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, has made a career out of analyzing skulls from around the world.

2.   He was an anthropologist and sculptor who developed a method for approximating the faces of figures like Ivan the Terrible and the poet Schiller by analyzing their skulls.

3.   Conroy is co-developer of a way to analyze fossilized skulls using computed tomography, or CT, scans.

4.   These individual groups probably intermingled with archaic humans such as the Neanderthal, said the researchers, who analyzed ancient skulls from around the world.