The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission a
View of the main façade from Madison Drive
Ford Model T parked in front of the National Museum in 1926
The museum as seen from the National Mall
Aerial view, 2008
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Homo sapiens is a distinct species of the hominid family of primates, which includes all the great apes. Over their evolutionary history, humans gradually developed traits such as bipedalism, dexterit
Notharctus tenebrosus, American Museum of Natural History, New York
Reconstructed tailless Proconsul skeleton
Genetic data suggest that chimpanzees and humans may have diverged from a common ancestor between 9 and 7 million years ago.
Chimpanzee nest. Later hominins may have developed niche creating shelter-building traditions from such earlier nest-building practices.