Museum exhibit developed at Harvard SEAS puts evolution at visitors' fingertips

With a quick swipe of the finger, the Tree of Life became a blur of branches flying past, zooming away from the root through deep history until finally, at the end of a twig, the human species Homo sapiens appeared. Engaging with an exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences last fall, a young visitor could hardly contain his awe at how far he had traveled: "Whoa, 3.5 billion years ago—that's a long time." The boy's mother then pointed to a pair of connecting lines and told him gleefully, "You're related to a banana!"

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