Becoming Human Part One: Film Analysis

According to the film, Becoming Human Part One, NOVA reveals how humans derived from apes and what caused human evolution. Brunet, an anthropologist, discovered Toumai, a Sahelanthropus tchadensis fossil in Africa that could have possibly walked upright before the Australopithecus afarensis. Zeresenay later found Salam, an Australopithecus afarensis, which derives from the same kind as Lucy. Both Salam and Lucy were ape-like in their upper body, yet human-like in their lower body. Fortunately for Salam, her teeth were examined to find out her real age, which was three years old. Her skull and teeth serves an importance to finding out the length of her childhood and how the bipedal brain differs from a chimpanzee. The Homo habilis later evolved.