A feminist critical gaze in analyses of images in popular media found that a patriarchal gaze in androcentric visual reconstructions of early biosocial hominin evolution persists despite some recent modifications in response to feminist critiques. Academic patriarchal reconstructions of hominin evolution and feminist critiques and research disproving them must first be outlined in order to be able to conduct feminist critical analyses of images in popular media that are influenced by academic research. Images of hominin evolution in popular media are important to examine not only because they shape public conceptions, but because they also influence archaeological reconstructions of hominin evolution.

在对流行媒体的图像进行分析时，女权主义者的批判性凝视发现，尽管最近对女权主义的批判做出了一些修改，但父权制凝视仍然存在于早期生物社会人源蛋白进化的雄性视觉重建中。必须首先概述人的进化论和对女性主义的批判的学术重男轻女的重建以及证明它们的研究，以便能够对受学术研究影响的大众媒体中的图像进行女性主义的批判性分析。流行媒体中人参素进化的图像不仅对公众观念具有重要意义，而且因为它们也影响人参素进化的考古学重建，因此具有重要意义。