Photo: #The skull of a hominid child known as "Lucy's Daughter." Palaeontologists recently uncovered the nearly complete skeleton of the child, who belonged to the branch of the human tree known as australopithecus afarensis and lived nearly three million years ago.

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New discoveries shed light on human evolution


From Lucy's daughter to Neanderthal DNA, new discoveries in the world of paleontology are giving us a better picture of how humans evolved. A rebroadcast of Kerri Miller's interview with Donald Johanson, one of the leading experts in the field.

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  • Donald Johanson: Director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and coauthor of "From Lucy to Language," which has recently been updated. He discovered the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton in Africa in 1974.

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