In Search of Human Origins, Part One

February 28, 1994
55 min
Season 21 - Episode 6: In Search of Human Origins, Part One

Season 21 - Episode 6: In Search of Human Origins, Part One

NOVA - Backdrop

Overview

In the first 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."

Episode Information

TV Show

NOVA

Season

Season 21

Episode Number

6

Air Date

February 28, 1994

Runtime

55 minutes