They have this computer program display at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum where you line up your face on the screen and it takes a shot and then transforms you into what you may have looked like as one of pre Homo Sapiens species. At the risk of opening myself to a million jokes (such as my wife: "You don't look that much different"), below is the Lenster as a Neanderthal.
![Campello as a Neanderthal](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ndiavPfxtipORXJYLHlAYzKm6j-bmJp0GKvwVs16DGWBnhAtn2Dvudzh3LYl0iPl7oveyqcQjU6p9Z6-5UFizzULGDezRNBVtYtnIPrwtR6kCj0EpBzC6p-s5rm5EhRWoLTMOQ/s280/An+Early+Human.jpg)
By the way, read this fascinating NYT article on Neanderthal mating with modern homo sapiens and leaving his DNA on Europeans.
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