How was it? I forgot to set the DVR... is it worth hunting down?
I didn't think it was Earth-shatteringly excellent, but I thought it did very weill, considering it's target. It neatly bookended the show with a description of what we found before Ardi (namely Lucy) and then what we've begun to find since, another Ardipithecus that's a million years farther back than the species in the show, which is, I believe Ardipithecus rapidus? I'm not sure what the name is for the new one, but it seems interesting.
"Whoa, look at them hands!"
Yeah, the thumbs are shorter than I would have thought, and as a whole, the hands seem longer than I would have thought...but then a human hand looks far different without all that skin, muscle and other tissue in the way.
I don't have anything to offer, sorry, but I'm with you in thinking this would be interesting to look at.
I can understand the draw for searching for human ancestors, but it seems to me it would be just as enlightening to follow chimps back and maybe come at it the other way and meet in the middle somewhere.