December 4, 1998

How Can We Interject Human Evolution Into More Museums?

By JONATHAN MARKS

With very few exceptions, it is hard to find exhibits on human evolution and variation in America's scientific museums these days. Such exhibits are needed, though, to show the public the work done in biological anthropology, the field that studies who and what we are, as natural objects. Biological anthropology is sometimes called "physical anthropology," to emphasize the physical phenomena that scholars in the