ANT 100 : Project
Document Summary
The american museum of natural history in new york has a long history of using exhibits and educational programs to teach evolution. For most of this time, a permanent hall has been dedicated to human evolution and associated fields. Various versions of these halls have educated tens of millions of people, and the current offering is one of the world"s newest, having debuted in 2007 and being known as the anne and bernard spitzer hall of human origins. The architecture of the hall is unconventional in that it begins by giving equal billing to molecular genetics and the fossil record, providing the visitor with two separates but extremely complementary lines of evidence for our own development. Other sections of the hall are unique in that they emphasize taxonomic variety in the fossil record as much as the more standard chronological narrative of human evolution seen in museum exhibitions.
