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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The Friday Follow: Studies in human evolution

Broadcast: Midmorning, 01/18/2008, 9:45 a.m.

Midmorning catches up with renowned paleontologist Donald Johanson, the man who discovered the 3.2 million-year-old "Lucy" skeleton.

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  • Donald Johanson: Paleoanthropologist and director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University.

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