Secrets of the Dead

Season 3, Episode 1

Episode Title: Search for the First Human

Air Date: 2001-05-08

Overview:

Explore the scientific mystery of human genesis through a close investigation of 13 fossils found in October 2000. The bones are the oldest hominid remains ever discovered — so old that they come from the time when the divergence of man and ape is thought to have occurred — and could be the blueprint for the first generation of the species that ultimately evolved into modern humans