"Witnessing Evolution"

"Surviving: The Body of Evidence," a new, interactive exhibition that explores the process of evolution and its profound impact on humans, continues at the University Museum through May 3, 2009, before beginning a national tour. “Witnessing Evolution,” the fourth segment of the exhibition, allows visitors to meet up with famous naturalists from several centuries. A series of interactive “sound chairs” feature seven famous scientists—-including Carolus Linnaeus (1701-1778), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Joseph Leidy (1823-1891), and Mary Leakey (1913-1996)--who offer their perspectives and their sometimes- revolutionary ideas “in their own words.”