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an algorithm on my mind

It would be interesting to know if scientists have developed a complex algorithm for taking cranial dimensions and translating them into bodily characteristics. Interesting because I have learned (and forgotten) a few basic patterns of relations between the two (for example, the type of teeth a primate has indicates a lot about how that primate lives, eats, as well as its dimensions). If there is no such algorithm, then I would like to do the following test. Give a skull (even a fictional one) and have two or more different scientists generate pictures of the complete animals. Q.: how much would their pictures vary?