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Article: A Natural Selection for Museum: New Hall to Focus on Evolution
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- October 15, 2009
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The National Museum of Natural History announced Wednesday that
it is dedicating a new hall to the story of human evolution, giving
emphasis not only to how we became humans but also to how changes in
the natural world affected human development.
The Hall of Human Origins, tracing a 6 million-year history, is
scheduled to open March 17 -- 100 years to the day after the
museum opened.
"Humans evolved over millions of years in response to a changing
world," said Rick Potts, the Smithsonian's director of the Human
Origins Program and an internationally known anthropologist. The
work of his team in Kenya and China will be a keystone of the
hall, with the working title "What Does It Mean to ...