These are the features where a viewer can look at any of the three reconstructions and have reasonable confidence that they are seeing something close to the truth.

The regions where the three reconstructions diverge — where the shape space distances are large — are the regions where methodological choice dominates over evidence.

Here, a viewer looking at any single reconstruction is essentially seeing a decision made by that reconstruction’s creator, not a feature determined by Zlatý kůň’s skull.

Framed this way, the geometric morphometric result is a kind of epistemological map of the face — showing, feature by feature, how much confidence is warranted in the reconstruction.

This is more useful information than any single reconstruction alone can provide, and it is the kind of information that future reconstruction studies would ideally always provide.