Human Evolution

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

Trace the development of modern humans using information from fossil hominids as well as clues from living primates. Research-quality casts of specimens from the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection, one of the largest research collections of modern human skeletons in the world, will help illustrate unique human physiological traits.

Teacher Guide

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