In Search Of... Season 6 # 18, MISSING LINK

Only in the last 100 years has the human race begun to ask the question: "Were we always human?" It was not until 1973 when an anthropologist happened to look down at the crumbling soil of Ethiopia that we achieved a new look at our past. A single broken bone can sometimes be a time machine.  Did it transport us to a moment when the missing link between man and ape locked the earth?

Never before bones dated to 3 1/2 million years B.C. had found in the soil. Fossils are very rare to find. When two bones were found at the same spot and put together, they resembled the joint of a knee. An ape's knee meets in a straight line, human knees at a slight angle. This knee looked almost human. This revolutionized the believes when the first humans walked the the earth.

Later on they found the skeleton of a full grown woman 3 1/2 feet tall weighing 50 pounds. A woman who was not quite human. Dr. Johannson and his colleague Dr. Tim White analyzed the fossil and later named a new species. She represents the oldest human ancestor in the world.
While the feet and legs appear very human, clearly indicating an upright walk, the skull is smaller than a human skull and the jaws quite different to human ones. Creationists disagree to the concept of evolution.