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Human evolution mural at Dover High School
Image by Colin Purrington
Mural and photograph courtesy Zach Strausbaugh, former student in the Dover school district in Pennsylvania. Mural was based on graphics in National Geographic Magazine. Apparently, the school janitor (Larry Reeser) burned it one night. It is likely that this mural, and its burning, sparked the school board to devise its anti-evolution stance. Some details at
www.csicop.org/intelligentdesignwatch/kitzmiller.html
www.ydr.com/search/ci_3219246
And now Paramount is making a movie on the whole affair. I think it would be truly grand to show a mural facsimile burn while the janitor and the school board members (I gather 2 were present) watched it burn. But I don’t think many people know about this mural, so it probably won’t make it into the script unless the writer happens to find this page. If you’re good friends with Ron Nyswaner, please send him the URL. And tell him that a great title would be, "Inherit the Bill". Nyswaner is from Clarksville, PA, and seems to have a pro-supernatural view on life.
If you are a public school science teacher, have your class construct a mural like this one, and hang it in your school’s hallway or lobby for the benefit of all. Projects like this combine art, science, and collaboration, and are appropriate for kindergarteners as well as high school students.
Another way to explore human origins is to have your students produce a "tree" version that more accurately shows our relationships to extinct and extant primates and hominids, rather than the "linear progression" style as shown in the image above. Here are some examples I found using Google’s image search:
www.pinkmonkey.com/studyguides/subjects/biology-edited/ch…
universe-review.ca/I10-36-Humanevo.jpg
www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html
www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/evol.html
www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Human_diversity.htm
wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeDating/HumanEvol…
www.amonline.net.au/human_evolution/tree.htm
info.med.yale.edu/genetics/kkidd/wister.html
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060829613/002-6953623-4456020?…
www.flickr.com/photos/24316473@N00/29463360/
www.flickr.com/photos/24316473@N00/32407173/
If your class completes such a project, please send me a photograph and I’ll post it here. And if you’re not a teacher, but engage in educational street art or murals, please consider the above as a theme for your next project. Or if you work at a zoo, consider a mural like the above for your primate house hallway. And send me a photograph.
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