Grade Level: Middle and High School
Science Content Standard: 10.5
High School Biology Enrichment Standard: Evolution
Social Studies Standard: 10
Language Arts Content Standards: 1.2; 1.4
Description: Outstanding
exhibits of fossils of prehistoric animals and plants are used to
illustrate the pattern of life throughout earth's existence and the
current theories of the mechanisms of biological change that are
evolution. These specimens provide evidence for the theory of evolution
through natural selection and genetic mutation. An exciting area of
study, evolution has been researched here for more than 100 years and
many of the Yale Peabody Museum’s exhibits were produced to promote
the understanding of evolution. This program will focus on vertebrate
animals including current research on the close relationship between
birds and dinosaurs, horse evolution, mass extinctions and a brief look
at human origins.
Photo/Image (left): A reconstruction of Archaeopteryx lithographica
and the Berlin specimen, found near Solnhofen, Germany, that inspired
it. Painting by S. P. Glaser (Hartman); photograph by John H. Ostrom.
