University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Surviving: the Body of Evidence
Philadelphia, PA
Surviving: The Body of Evidence is a new, interactive exhibition that explores the process of evolution and its profound impact on humans. Opening at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, it will then begin a multi-city, national tour.
Fit for Life introduces the exhibition, inviting the the visitor takes stock of the inherited human strengths and capabilities that make each individual a “survivor” in our complex world. Endurance, flexibility, balance, dexterity, appetite, and communication capabilities often taken for granted are considered through a dramatic cascading video display.
Body of Evidence, a three-times life-sized recumbent figure of a woman, offering visitors a chance to explore the evolution-driven characteristics of many joints, through highly detailed, interactive three-dimensional renderings and original animations.
We Keep Evolving is the concluding segment of the exhibition, which invites the visitor to access the impact of evolution both today and in to the future. Visitors can consider imagined futures as shared by geneticists, evolutionary biologists, nanotechnology engineers, and even local school children, through video presentations.