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   ocr: - 6 MuralofPrimate Evolutiona - THE MURAL OF PRIMATE EVOLUTION, CREATED BY ARTIST JAY MATTERNES FOR THE 1993 opening of the Hall of Human Biology and Evolution, represents fifty million years of primate evolution by reconstructing one member of the pri- mate fauna at each of five points during the Tertiary Period. Read from right to left, this remark- ably detailed and realistic panorama of five vignettes depicting early primates and their habitats allows us to follow 1) changes in skull size, brain size, hand formation, and other characteristics. Mr. Matternes's painstaking tech- 8 2X99333339 ...