Individual features, particularly the nose, ears, and lips, are much more variable, consistent with the geometric morphometric findings for Zlatý kůň.

Some studies have found that artistic or semi-artistic methods, which allow for more interpretive latitude, tend to produce results that are subjectively judged as more lifelike and more individual — but that this subjective assessment does not necessarily correlate with objective accuracy, as measured by comparison to ground-truth photographs.

A reconstruction can look more like a specific person without actually looking more like the specific person it is supposed to represent.

This finding, if it generalizes to ancient reconstruction, has implications for how Daynès’s hyperrealistic reconstruction should be interpreted.