In Search of Our Ancestors
WGBH NOVA , BBC Horizon 1993
Distributor: HIT Entertainment
Series Producer: Peter Jones
Producers: Mike Gunton, Lenora Johanson, Peter Jones
3 programmes that explore the tangled tale of how we became Homosapiens. An evolutionary epic that reaches back more than 3 million years to a human ancestor, nicknamed Lucy, who resembled an ape, yet walked upright.
Host Don Johanson, the noted anthropologist, who discovered Lucy, looks at how and why we developed the traits that mark us as a species.
