I see you Muammar Gaddafi...

I'm convinced that the illustrator who authored this 1970s-era, grossly out-of-date Time-Life illustration depicting our human lineage intentionally depicted Muammar Gaddafi in the rendering of Homo habilis in the center of the image. If I'm correct, it's a fascinating example of a science illustrator interjecting--albeit subtlety--political commentary through an artistic representation of the past.  Of course, this was the younger, rouge Gaddafi who ruled the 'pariah state' of the 1980s.