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Professor Joe Cain

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Heredity and Mendelism Display in Horniman Museum

Case 91 Evolution - Heredity - Mendelism | Evidences of Evolution exhibit | Horniman Museum

The “Heredity – Mendelism” display occupies case 91 of the Evidences of Evolution exhibit in the Natural History Gallery of Horniman Museum. This photo gallery presents close-up detail for this display, with apologies for the glare and adjustments due to low light conditions.

Heredity – Mendelism display

Case 91 Heredity - Mendelism (full view)
Case 91 Heredity - Mendelism (Introduction)
Case 91 Heredity - Mendelism (F1 and F2 crosses from homozygous parents BB and bb)
Case 91 Heredity - Mendelism (additional detail)
Case 91 Heredity - Mendelism (Mendelian algebra and explanation of two factor cross)
Case 91 Heredity - Mendelism (Mendelian algebra and explanation of two factor cross)
Case 91 Heredity - Mendelism (full view)

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Evolution - A Journal of Nature - cartoon from issue 02 Evolution - A Journal of Nature - cartoon from issue 20 Statue from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the British Museum, Hoa Hakananai’a (or Stolen Friend) Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World Flight of the Langoustine, by Pierre Diamantopoulo MRSS. It is made of four life-size bronze figures flying through a steel grid. It was inspired by a discarded and mangled lobster pot that the artist had found on Brighton beach. In his imagination, the washed-up object that had seemingly helped the lobsters escape, translated itself into a wider story of human exodus and release – a dash for freedom. Diamantopoulo describes the figures as “at once profound, frivolous and boisterous, occupying the air like a flock of birds and inspired by modern dance choreography”. Bronze casting at Milwyn Foundry and fabrication of the steel grid and assembly by Art Fabrications. The sculpture weighs 2.2 tonnes and measures approximately 3.5 metres high and 3 meters wide. Flight of the Langoustine was inaugurated on the Hove Plinth on 17 September 2023. Lock screen gallery Lock screen gallery Case 31 Case 99 Humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) Gulls Kingfishers Case 84-86 sideview (looking right)

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