Alexandre Augier
Anthropology 130
Short Paper

Virtual Trip to Three Online Human Evolution Exhibits. In this short paper I will speak about my virtual trip on Human Evolution exhibits through three different websites linked on the topic I chose. After having chose and visited three different websites on the four listed in the topic, I will be able to evaluate those websites. The first website I was interested in was the one of the Institute of Human Origin (IHO) linked in the topic as www.becominghuman.org . The second online exhibit I chose was a website from the Hall of Human Ancestors at the Smithsonian Institution (HHAS), linked on the topic as http://anthropology.si.edu/HumanOrigins/ha/ances_starts.html. Finally, the last website I went through was the one of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) from the link www.amnh.org/exhibitions/atapuerca. I chose those three different websites, because they looked to me very different and do not target the same viewer, and for me it is more interesting to make a paper about three websites of different scientific institutions. In this paper I will compare the websites in details. The first website I visited was the Institute of Human Origin (IHO), from my first point of view I find this site very interesting, by going through the website I discovered that this website is totally dedicated to educate viewer of the Human Evolution from the last seven million years, through articles, videos, pictures, games or activities. I was also able to read different articles from different scientists from different disciplines link with the study of human evolution. For me the discovery of the two nearly complete skeleton of a probable new species of Australopithecus called Australopithecus sediba in South Africa is an important thing of our evolution. I was surprise by the article it was easy to read, short but all information I needed where in the article and I was choc to discover the links of other articles