Exactly--it's an australopithecus model from the National Museum of Nairobi! They have a more authentic collection of our ancestors than in NYC's Natural History Museum (where it's mostly casts)--for the reason that most of them were dug up in Kenya.
They haven't updated their information on Neanderthals yet, though, since it's been found that those of us of European extraction have some Neanderthal blood.
Australopithecenes may or may not have used tools, it's still up for debate...
I got very hooked on the subject of early humans since reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, so seeing all those scary skulls and bones was quite exciting to me.
Baby gorilla?
ReplyDeleteClose, but you can see in the image that the creature probably has/had some toolmaking capacity.
ReplyDeleteHa ha! I totally missed the tool making capacity part of the photo! I can see something now that you mention it.
ReplyDeleteIs it a model of our prehistoric ancestors?
Exactly--it's an australopithecus model from the National Museum of Nairobi! They have a more authentic collection of our ancestors than in NYC's Natural History Museum (where it's mostly casts)--for the reason that most of them were dug up in Kenya.
ReplyDeleteThey haven't updated their information on Neanderthals yet, though, since it's been found that those of us of European extraction have some Neanderthal blood.
Australopithecenes may or may not have used tools, it's still up for debate...
I got very hooked on the subject of early humans since reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, so seeing all those scary skulls and bones was quite exciting to me.