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Donald Johanson
Born
Donald Steven Johanson

(1943-06-28) June 28, 1943 (age 80)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
University of Chicago
Known forDiscovery of a new hominid, Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy")
Scientific career
FieldsPaleoanthropology
InstitutionsArizona State University

Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist. He is known for discovering, with Yves Coppens and Maurice Taieb, the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.

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Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist. He is known for discovering, with Yves Coppens and Maurice Taieb, the fossil...

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Australopithecus afarensis

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International Afar Research Expedition—led by anthropologists Maurice Taieb, Donald Johanson and Yves Coppens—unearthed several hundreds of hominin specimens in...

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International Afar Research Expedition (IARE). This enabled co-director Donald Johanson to discover an early hominin fossil, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecine...

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Arizona State University

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of the National Institutes of Health, to name a few. ASU Professor Donald Johanson, who discovered the 3.18 million year old fossil hominid Lucy (Australopithecus)...

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Chomsky, and Robert Ornstein on linguistics and cognitive science, Donald Johanson and Robert Ardrey on paleoanthropology, and Desmond Morris on zoology and...

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Danakil Depression

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The area is often referred to as the cradle of humanity; in 1974 Donald Johanson and his colleagues found the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil...

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University Press. Bibcode:2002prfr.book.....H. ISBN 978-0-521-08141-2.. Johanson, Donald & Wong, Kate. Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. Three Rivers...

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Cleveland Museum of Natural History

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in 1922 by the trustees of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Donald Johanson was the curator of the museum when he discovered "Lucy," the skeletal...

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collection of prehistoric hominid teeth and bones. Discovered in 1975 by Donald Johanson's team in Hadar, Ethiopia, the "First Family" is estimated to be about...

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Afar Region

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74 of "Lucy", the Australopithecus afarensis skeletal remains, by Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. On March 5, 2005, another...

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Ethiopia

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the specimen was found in the Awash Valley of Afar Region in 1974 by Donald Johanson, and is one of the most complete and best-preserved adult Australopithecine...

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Kent Hovind

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from Dave Thomas. During a debate with Farrell Till, Hovind said that Donald Johanson had uncovered the leg bones of Lucy at a different site over a mile...

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including evolutionists Richard Dawkins and E. O. Wilson, anthropologists Donald Johanson, Lionel Tiger, and Robin Fox, and psychologist Robert Sternberg. Kistler...

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East African Rift

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a partial australopithecine skeleton discovered by anthropologist Donald Johanson dating back over 3 million years. Richard and Mary Leakey have also...

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Timeline of paleontology

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of stasis between relatively short periods of rapid change. 1974 — Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover a 3.5 million-year-old female hominid fossil...

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Little Foot

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 33-34. Die Darstellung der Fundgeschichte folgt einer Beschreibung von Donald Johanson im Editorial zum Newsletter des Institute of Human Origins der Arizona...

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Australopithecus afarensis, were discovered in Ethiopia by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson. Found in the Awash Valley of the Ethiopia's Afar Triangle near the...

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skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis specimen, discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson, Yves Coppens, Maurice Taieb and Tom Gray, was named "Lucy" because...

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member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, was found in 1974 by Donald Johanson near Hadar in the desertic Afar Triangle region of northern Ethiopia...

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Paranthropus boisei

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year after describing A. afarensis from East Africa, anthropologists Donald Johanson and Tim D. White suggested that A. afarensis was instead the last common...

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