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Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as " Lucy " in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia .
Donald Carl Johanson, paleoanthropologist and author; Steven Johnson, author; Steve Jones, evolutionary biologist and author; Horace Freeland Judson, historian of molecular biology and author; Olivia Judson, evolutionary biologist, broadcaster and author
French geologist Maurice Taieb discovered the Hadar Formation in 1968. He then formed the IARE, inviting notably Johanson, an American anthropologist and founding director of the Institute of Human Origins of Arizona State University; Jon Kalb, an American geologist; and Yves Coppens, a French-born paleontologist now based at the Collège de France, to co-direct the research.
The Lucy probe is named after the "Lucy" hominid fossil, while Donaldjohanson is named for that fossil's co-discoverer Donald Johanson (born 1943), an American paleoanthropologist. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 December 2015 (M.P.C. 97569). [1] [11]
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AL 333, commonly referred to as the "First Family", is a 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 3.2 million years old, and consists of the remains of at least thirteen individuals of different ages. [1]
After finding Lucy during the "surge of discoveries" [7] in the 1970s, Donald Johanson returned to Berkeley, California and founded the Institute of Human Origins with the mission of bridging social, earth, and life science approaches to the most important questions concerning the course, causes, and timing of events in the human career over deep time.
Prehistoric Autopsy is a 2012 British television documentary film series shown in three one-hour episodes on BBC Two.The series is about human evolution and is narrated by biologist George McGavin and anatomist Alice Roberts.