NOVA · Season 21 · Episode 17

“In Search of Human Origins, Part One”

Aired Tuesday 1 March 1994

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".

S21 E17 discussion