Liverpool Museum plans to use animatronics to guide us through the maze of
human fossils and show how and where our ancestors once lived. “Missing Links
Alive!” offers talking figures and dioramas from prehuman australopithecines to
thoroughly modern Cro-Magnon cave painters. The show begins on 23 May and runs
until November.
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