The nearly $21 million Hall of Human Origins marks the 100th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution museum and represents the most comprehensive look at human evolution since its opening.
The massive hall includes rare specimens, including the only original fossil of a Neanderthal skeleton in the United States. Two skulls discovered more than a century ago of a Neanderthal and a...
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Gob - smacked - 2010-03-17 14:06:05
What? Are you telling me there were humans more than 6,000 years ago?
Omigod. My tiny world is shaken. I beginning to doubt my home-schooling in Texas.
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