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Five departmental collections in the Museum of Comparative Zoology are facing a yearlong move from their age-old home on Oxford St. into the basement of the Northwest Science Building, after a series of clouded administrative indecisiveness that prompted some confusion among the staff...
...meet Tisul Himat, 43, a trader from an island on Aceh's west coast, there with 10 members of her family. "We really wanted to see how Banda Aceh had been rebuilt," she says. "It's really beautiful now." Their next stop was the ship-shaped Aceh Tsunami Museum. This multimillion dollar boondoggle opened 14 months ago. You can sit in its shade and contemplate the scenic Dutch colonial cemetery next door...
...Tattersall of the Department of Physical Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the research, calls the Denisova hominin a "significant addition" to the emerging picture of our past - one we now know we shared with a number of other hominin species. "We are the only hominin around today, so we tend to think that's how it's always been. But the evidence is accumulating that the human evolutionary tree is quite luxuriantly branching. There were multiple species that competed in the evolutionary arena, rather than a single lineage that was honed from...
Bizarre Animals is certainly a unique event, but it looks as if it may not be the last of its kind. Wing credits much of the project’s success to the Museum of Natural History and its commitment to bringing all kinds of new, innovative programming to its patrons. Elisabeth Werby ’72, the Executive Director of the Museum of Natural History, expressed great excitement about these projects in an emailed statement...
...Good art—whether or not contemporary—can help people see the world in new ways,” she writes. “The Museum has a strong tradition of offering experiences at the nexus of art and science—from the exquisite models of botanical specimens, the Glass Flowers, to our recent photography exhibits. Bizarre Animals continues this tradition and takes it to a new level...