Human Evolution

Investigate the latest research on human evolution with specialists in the field.

Human Evolution: Following Lucy’s Footsteps offers students a dynamic introduction to human evolution through comparison of museum-quality primate and hominin cast specimens. Students are introduced to exciting paleoanthropological discoveries while learning about our unique bipedal place on the primate family tree. 

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Ohio’s Learning Standards 

Grade 4

Life Science – Earth’s Living History 

• Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
• Fossils can be compared to one another and to present-day organisms according to their similarities and differences. 

Grade 8

Life Science – Species and Reproduction 

• Diversity of species, a result of variation of traits, occurs through the process of evolution and extinction over many generations. The fossil records provide evidence that changes have occurred in number and types of species.
• Every organism alive today comes from a long line of ancestors who reproduced successfully every generation.
• The characteristics of an organism are a result of inherited traits received from parent(s). 

High School

Biology – Evolution 

• Mechanisms
• Speciation