NOVA

Season 37, Episode 4

Episode Title: Becoming Human: First Steps

Air Date: 2009-11-03

Overview:

The first hour examines the factors that caused the split from the apes. The film explores the fossil of “Selam,” also known as “Lucy’s Child” — an amazing, nearly complete child fossil that helps shed light on our ancestors’ early development and how we began to depart from that of chimps.