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Darwin & Modern Science DARWIN & MODERN SCIENCE An ‘evolutionary’ exhibition organized by UNESCO00 Office in Venice (BRESCE) and the Abdus11 Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste) in collaboration with Zoic s.r.l. (Trieste), the Museum of Natural History (Trieste), the National22 Museum of the Antarctic University of Trieste, Synchrotron33 (Trieste), and the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth Palazzo Zorzi, Venice 27 April - 14 May 2009 Monday to Friday 10 am - 5 pm Information about the Exhibition : UNESCO Office in Venice phone : + 39 041 260.15.11 email: [email protected] Website : http://www.unesco.org/venice55 Graphic composition : BRESCE/IKM Photo credit : ©UNESCO A. Ajoux C. Vincenzi ©UNESCO 2009 Exhibition Room A : DARWIN The first part of the exhibition is dedicated to Charles Darwin, his life and his theories. A power point will suggest that Darwin may have travelled to the Antarctic modifying the voyage of The Beagle. Visitors can compare the forms of (in realistic dimensions) between a modern penguin and an extinct one; examples of moulds/casts; climatic changes/evolution. Snapshots of a selection of items displayed : Magnetic panel Explaining the displaying evolution to climatic children components Charles Darwin Darwin : Beginnings of the Evolution of Life Mould/cast Mould/cast Middle cambrian Precambrian period : period : Trilobite Soft-body Fauna Wooden forms Pachydiptes of penguins : ponderosus Imperial Penguin (modern) and Pachydiptes ponderosus (extinct) Graphic composition : BRESCE/IKM Photo credit : ©UNESCO A. Ajoux C. Vincenzi ©UNESCO 2009 Exhibition Room B : DINOSAURS The second part of the exhibition is dedicated to dinosaurs. The most impressive piece displayed is the skeletal replica (in realistic dimension) of the Prosaurolophus dinosaur, known as the dinosaur with a duck beak or Adrosauro. There are also 2 fossilized dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi Desert and a Velociraptor (rediscovered with Jurassic Park) and a Triceratops. Also displayed are tomographic x-rays of dinosaur eggs. Snapshots of a selection of items displayed : Replica of : Replica of : Prosaurolophus Prosaurolophus skeleton skeleton (dinosaur with a duck beak or (front) Hadrosaur) In realistic dimension Replica of : Replica of : Prosaurolophus Prosaurolophus skeleton skeleton (bones) (face) Mould/Cast : Mould/Cast : Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx discovered in Solnhofen, Germany (approx. 1860 ) Fossilized Fossilized dinosaur egg dinosaur egg (Mongolia) : (Mongolia) : Velociraptor Triceratops Graphic composition : BRESCE/IKM Photo credit : ©UNESCO A. Ajoux C. Vincenzi ©UNESCO 2009 Exhibition Room C : HOMINIDS The third part is dedicated to hominids. Seven busts of hominids (Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Homo rudolfensis, Homo boisei, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens) are displayed and a series of illustrative posters. Snapshots of a selection of items displayed : Evolution of man Hominid busts on stromatolites Hominids busts on stromatolites (first forms of macroscopical life on earth) Hominids busts Australopithecus africanus (In realistic dimension) (Taung child) Homo rudolfensis Homo rudolfensis (front) (profile) Australopithecus The oldest afarensis discoveries of hominids (front) Graphic composition : BRESCE/IKM Photo credit : ©UNESCO A. Ajoux C. Vincenzi ©UNESCO 2009 Exhibition Room D : NEW TECHNOLOGY & EVOLUTION The fourth part of the exhibition will display reproductions of teeth and skull bones of the Neanderthal man from Croatia (currently being used for genome studies); a musical instrument (flute) found in Slovenia. A series of posters will illustrate how physics can help identify the age of hominids thanks to nuclear clocks, how the microstructure of teeth is analyzed with synchrotron light, etc. Snapshots of a selection of items displayed : Skull of Ursus X-ray computed spelaeus tomography : a novel technique for evolution sciences Physics & Human Physics & Human Evolution Evolution New x-ray New nuclear microscopes clocks Musical instrument Homo (flute) neanderthalensis Discovered in Krapina (teeth) Homo Homo neanderthalensis neanderthalensis (jaws) (teeth) Graphic composition : BRESCE/IKM Photo credit : ©UNESCO A. Ajoux C. Vincenzi ©UNESCO 2009 .
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