This is a tool, the exhibition is a tool for teaching evolution. It's not necessarily that we're shying away from intelligent design or creationism, but that's not what we do.
We're experiencing species loss at 1 every 15 minutes, and that's a conservative estimate.
We wanted everybody to understand that evolution is the single process by which everything comes to be.
At first, the thought was we'd fix it up. But after a series of visitor studies in late 2000, early 2001, the institution got behind the idea of a full-scale renovation.
We're not being in your face about it, but we're not shy, either.
We do work as a team. Basically, the vision came out of that team.
