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Geologist Elizabeth Cottrell gestures with her hands while sitting at a table talking to two students.

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Juan Rodriguez holding a Giant panda.
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Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
Drawing of skeleton of Megatherium cuvieri
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Looking down at a beige skeleton of a boy that is partially excavated in a pit in the ground.

Forensic Anthropology

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3 skulls (cranium only) against a black background.

Human Evolution

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Meteorite on table

Meteorites: Messengers From Outer Space

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Painting of a swamp that has green colored ferns and plants. Foreground tree barks are brown, those in the distance are bare.

Global Climate Change in Perspective

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Old, lined notebook open to script-style notes and prints of brownish fruit-like shapes outlined in pen

Digitizing Nature – Field Books to Fossils

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Maggy Benson and Dr. Joshua A. Bell sit at a table with several cell phones and various rocks and shells.

Unseen Connections – A Natural History of the Cellphone

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Maggy Benson and Dr. Gabriela Pérez Báez sit at a table with several colorful pictures and brochures.

Recovering Voices – Sustaining Global Linguistic Diversity

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Maggy Benson and Meet Dr. David Hunt are at a table with several boxes, each with some pieces of bone.

Mummy Science – Natural and Cultural Preserved Remains

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Maggy Benson and Dr. Torben Rick are seated at a table with several furry specimens in front of them.

Island Biodiversity – Tracking Human Influences

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Maggy Benson and Dr. Briana Pober sit at a table with casts of early human skulls, their stone tools, and the skull of a carnivore.

Human Evolution – Early Human Diets

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Maggy Benson and Dr. Sabrina Sholts are seated at a table with a black jar, several bones, a small human skeleton, and various tools.

How Bones Reveal Environmental Health

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A prehistoric, reddish-brown painting of animals on a rock shelter in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe

Make Your Own Cave and Cave Art

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