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The Hall of Human Origins offers visitors an immersive, interactive journey through 6 million years of scientific evidence for human origins and the stories of survival and extinction in our family tree.
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Exploring Human Origins: What Does It Mean to Be Human?, an exhibition developed by the Smithsonian and the American Library Association, is traveling to libraries across the U.S. through April 2017.
Next Stop: Cottage Grove, OR, on Feb. 17, 2016
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Triceratops, from the exhibition, The Last American Dinosaurs. Credit: Smithsonian Institution. |
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We're looking for dinosaur enthusiasts to help our visitors explore The Last American Dinosaurs exhibition. Help the public learn about dinosaurs, other fossils, and mass extinction events that occurred 66 million years ago. Training begins in March.
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| Smithsonian Science How: Bones |
Resources for Teaching Evolution |
Live Webcasts: Feb. 11, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. EST
During interactive webcasts, "How Bones Reveal Environmental Health," anthropologist Sabrina Sholts will discuss how she studies skeletons to understand environmental health.
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The Smithsonian's Teaching Evolution through Human Examples project provides free teaching resources for Advanced Placement (AP) Biology classes, aligned to learning objectives, using human case studies to teach core evolutionary concepts.
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| The World's Oldest Tattoos |
Recovering Voices Research |
A team of researchers, including Lars Krutak, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, have concluded that the world's oldest known tattoos belong to Ötzi, the European Tyrolean Iceman who died and was buried beneath an Alpine glacier along the Austrian–Italian border around 3250 B.C.
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Recovering Voices is a collaborative initiative of the National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The initiative's mission is to collaborate with communities worldwide to sustain and celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity.
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| National Parks Adventure 3D |
Mother Tongue Film Festival |
Premiering Friday, February 12
Journey through some of America’s most majestic wild places and celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service on the giant screen! National Parks Adventure opens in IMAX 3D on February 12 at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater.
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On Sunday, February 21, we invite you to celebrate International Mother Language Day with an afternoon of free films. Come see inspiring stories in a diversity of languages —some threatened globally— and experience how communities around the world are sustaining and revitalizing their languages and their cultures.
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| Dinosaurs Imagined and Reimagined |
Discussion: Discovering Homo naledi |
Wednesday, February 24, 6:30 p.m.
Walk through time with Matthew Carrano, Curator of Dinosauria, as he
explores the history and special effects of dinosaurs in popular film. Whether
campy or surreal, scary or comical, these specially-selected film clips reveal
how movie dinosaurs have inspired audiences (including scientists) for the
better part of a century.
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Thursday, February 26, 4:00 p.m.
Join us for a HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic discussion with Becca Pexiotto from American University about the discovery of the newest member of our family tree, Homo naledi!
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BANNER IMAGE:
Anthropologist Sabrina Sholts. During live webcasts on February 11, see how Sabrina studies skeletons, particularly human skulls, to understand environmental health. Learn about how a variety of environmental pollutants can affect bone and tooth formation. Get a glimpse into the technology used to analyze bones for evidence of chemical exposure. Understand how the science of bioarchaeology links the past to the present through evidence recorded on ancient bones.
Image Credit: Dan Sonnett, Smithsonian Institution.
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