What Humanity Would Look Like If It Had Evolved To Survive Car Crashes

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

By illustrating how radically different we would look if human bodies had evolved to include the biological equivalents of automotive safety equipment, the team hoped to display just how important driving carefully really is. Visitors to the Towards Zero website can click on different parts of Graham's body, like his brain, to see how the team, comprised of a trauma surgeon, a crash expert, and an artist redesigned the human body. 

"Graham's brain is the same as yours, but his skull is a lot bigger, with more cerebrospinal fluid and ligaments to brace the brain when a collision occurs. His head offers greater overall safety, effectively protecting the brain and reducing the damage caused on internal impact with the skull wall," Patricia Piccinini, the artist who created the life-sized Graham sculpture, said. Similar measures were taken for the other parts of Graham's body which are frequently injured in modern humans, including a strengthened rib cage with small airbags between each rib and an ultra-sturdy neck to protect against whiplash.

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