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Article: On `Nova,' the ultimate `Roots' Series tracks down our earliest ancestors
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 28, 1994
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A hominid -- female, 3 1/2 feet tall -- collapses at the edge of
an ancient swamp. Vultures and hungry fish overlook this, and 3.2
million years later, anthropologist Donald C. Johanson finds the
hominid's skeleton in Ethiopian sands.
Johanson gives her a name, and on that night in 1974, he and other
anthropologists gather under a tent and dedicate a song to her:
"Lu-cy in the Sky-y, with Di-a-monds!"
That's how humankind's earliest known ancestor was discovered --
the subject of "In Search of Human Origins," a three-part
WGBH-produced miniseries for "Nova," airing tonight through
Wednesday at 8 on Channel 2.
"For well over a century, people have been fascinated by the
search to find a ...