McMullen Museum of Art © Brassaï Estate Museum Hours Mon-Fri 11-4 Sat-Sun 12-5 Museum Location 140 Commonwealth Devlin Hall 108 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out | Human Evolution How did our species come to rule the planet? Rick Potts argues that environmental instability and disruption were decisive factors in the success of Homo sapiens: Alone among our primate tribe, we were able to cope with constant change and turn it to our advantage. Potts is director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Program, curator of anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and curator of the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which opened at that museum last year. He also leads excavations in the East African Rift Valley and codirects projects in China that compare early human behavior and environments in eastern Africa with those in eastern Asia. Why did our close relatives—from Neanderthals to their recently discovered cousins, the Denisovans, to the hobbit people of Indonesia—die out while we became a global success? That is the million-dollar question. The classic view of human evolution doesn’t emphasize adaptability. Right.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Strange Science: Mammals - StumbleUpon Perhaps as long as 5,000 years ago, a group of sailors found skulls belonging to a race of hideous giants whom the ancient Greeks named cyclops. Dwelling in their mythical land, entrusting the fate of their crops to their evil gods and devouring any humans they could find, these creatures terrified generations of Europeans. Today, relatives of these monsters can still be found — roaming the African savannas or the Indian jungles, or even eating peanuts from the hands of small children in city zoos. In fact, the ancient Greek sailors found elephant skulls. What they mistook for single eye sockets were the nasal openings for the elephants' trunks. Most Recent Additions May-31-2015 May-17-2015 Apr-11-2015 Year: 1486 Artist: Erhard Reuwich Originally published in: Perigrinationes ad Terram Sanctam Now appears in: The Unicorn by Nancy Hathaway Unicorn "sightings" occurred throughout the world, but the mythical creature wasn't the same in each description. Year: 1897 Scientist: H.N.
ICA Home | Welcome The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) Cape Cod Art Museum - Cape Cod Museum of Art Fitchburg Art Museum Danforth Museum of Art Attleboro Arts Museum American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts The Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum Welcome to the Frontpage Whistler Sculpture by Mico Kaufman Welcome to the Whistler House Museum of Art, the birthplace of America’s premier 19 th Century Artist, James McNeill Whistler . Established in 1908 as the permanent home of the Lowell Art Association, the museum has been in continuous operation since that time. The statue of James McNeill Whistler in Whistler Park, next to the museum (above) was sculpted by Mico Kaufman , recipient of the James McNeill Whistler Distinguished Artist Award 2010 . Whistler House Museum of Art/ Lowell Art Association, Inc. est. 1878 243 Worthen Street, Lowell, MA 01852-1822 978-452-7641 Admission : $5.00, Seniors & Students $4.00 Hours : Wed through Sat, 11 am to 4 pm
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