Let's make no bones about it - humans are apes. Follow the story of human evolution from the early mouse-size Adapis 55 million years ago. Adapis was a small tree-climbing insect-eating mammal. The display includes replica skulls and fleshed heads of the 6 million year old Sahelanthropus from the deserts of Chad, Africa - Australopithecus and the more modern Homo erectus and H. neanderthalensis. For comparison we display the replica heads of Gigantopithecus blacki, a 10 foot tall ape from 400,000 years ago and Piltdown Man, the infamous Edwardian hoax. Picture of Boxgrove man courtesy of, and ©, John Sibbick.
Alongside the displays of skulls are examples of flint tools.
For further details please contact - Steve Hutt, Dinosaur Isle, on (01983) 404344 stephen.hutt@iow.gov.uk | 
