March 17, 2010
The Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins exhibit opens today, March 17, 2010. The exhibit cost $21 million and features more than “295 fossils and artifacts, including the only Neanderthal skeleton in the United States,” according to the Associated Press. The majority of funding came from David H. Kock and the exhibit is named in his honor. The exhibit depicts the process of evolution over the span of 6 million years.