NOVA

NOVA· Season 21 · Episode 17

In Search of Human Origins, Part One

S21E17·February 28, 1994·1h·PBS

In the first part of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancestors of the human species, reaching back more than three million years to a strange ape who walked upright. Johanson takes viewers to the site in Ethiopia where he discovered the fossil remains of this missing link nicknamed "Lucy".

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