Fun with fossils: South African kids learn a whole lot more about human evolution from museum workshops

By Shaw Badenhorst, Associate Professor in Zooarchaeology, University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain inaccuracies.

South Africans still have some of the lowest rates of acceptance of human evolution, mostly due to conflicting religious views. Religion and the non-acceptance of evolution hinders…

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