We’re experiencing species loss at 1 every 15 minutes, and that’s a conservative estimate.

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 not being in your face about it, but we’re not shy, either.

We wanted everybody to understand that evolution is the single process by which everything comes to be.

We do work as a team. Basically, the vision came out of that team.

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’ve stripped out all the metaphors.