These amazing fossils incredible. Some are replicas, some are real. But what have we got in here? Well, there we have got a real fossil. This is one of the best preserved of all human fossils. It's in our collection here. It was found in 1921. So it's gotta be something special if you keep it locked up like this. Absolutely. You know, it is a beautiful fossil. Darwin, of course, had predicted that evidence would show that we had originated in Africa, but it wasn't until this fossil turned up in 1921 that the evidence started to emerge. Wow, that's incredible. So this is the fossil from Broken Hill in what's now Zambia, and it's fantastically well preserved. I mean, how important is that fossil to science and understanding our origins? Well, when it was found in 1921, it was an absolute bombshell because nothing else had turned up from Africa like it. Someone called it a comet of prehistory because it was just like out of nowhere, something to be amazed by. And we now we'd place it in a species called Homo Heidelbergensis, which might be the common ancestor of us and Neanderthals. So it could be 300,000 or 400,000 years old, we're still working on dating it. And ti's, as you can see it's got this massive brow ridge, which many of these early humans have got.


这些神奇的化石，让人叹为观止。有些是复制品，有些是原本。可这里面是什么？ 那就是块真化石。那是保存最完好的人类化石之一，是我们馆的藏品。它发现于1921年，锁得这么严实，肯定很稀奇。 是的，这是块美丽的化石。达尔文曾预言，会有证据证明我们是起源于非洲的。可直到1921年，这块化石才出现证明了达尔文的话。 真是不可思议