Donald Johanson

Donald Johanson
Born
Donald Carl Johanson

(1943-06-28) June 28, 1943 (age 81)
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 the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.


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