By ANNA KUCHMENT
The Dallas Morning News 

Dallas museum talks about evolution, and that's unusual

 


DALLAS (AP) — Visitors to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science came face to face on Friday with some long-lost relatives. Visitors saw their fur-covered bodies, touched casts of their skulls and, wearing virtual-reality goggles, descended into the underground chamber where explorers unearthed their remains.

The museum's revamped Being Human Hall is more than just another freshly painted gallery. It marks a new level of engagement for the museum with a theory that more than a third of Americans still reject: human evolution.

"It's part of our human story," Perot Museum CEO Linda Silver t...



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