Humans in the Americas

Museum History

Founded in 1900, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science traces its origins back more than a hundred years to one man's efforts and a little log cabin tucked away in the mountains.

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The Neanderthal in You

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Steve Nash explains that our closest human ancestors, the Neanderthals, might be more related to us than we previously thought.

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March 15, 2012
The process of scientific discovery is one of observation, data collection, evaluation, and putting forth theories to explain our world. Ideas that have stood for decades are sometimes toppled and new findings revolutionize our thinking. In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Steve Holen talks about the quest to identify the time period in which humans first arrived in the Americas.