Science Museums Adapt in Struggle against Creationist Revisionism [Slide Show]

Institutions step up fight against attacks on theory of evolution

HUMAN ANCESTRY Greeting visitors at the entrance to the new Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History is a trio of life-size primate skeletons: a chimpanzee, a modern human, and a reconstructed Neandertal, posed against an animated backdrop showing cells, chromosomes, and three-dimensional bone scans from humans and our closest relatives.
©Denis Finnin/AMNH
SKULL WALL A cladogram depicting the evolutionary relationships among groups of primates is featured in the Darwin exhibit. © Denis Finnin, AMNH
DARWIN'S STUDY An elaborate reproduction of Charles Darwin’s study from Down House is one of the centerpiece attractions of Darwin, the most in-depth exhibition ever mounted on this highly original thinker. © Denis Finnin, AMNH
GALAPÁGOS Fossils, mounted specimens, and illustrations of the uniquely American modern animals and groups Darwin saw on the Galápagos Islands, such as blue-footed boobies, land iguanas, and marine iguanas. © Denis Finnin, AMNH
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WHERE'S PÄÄBO? Figures of evolutionary researcher Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology point out differences between the human and chimpanzee genetic code. Angie Fox, University of Nebraska State Museum
FLY KARAOKE Singers can compete with Drosophila flies to create the most appealing love songs. Angie Fox, University of Nebraska State Museum

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