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Donald Johanson

American anthropologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1943 · age 83

Donald Carl Johanson 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.

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Emperor Has No Clothes Award2015
National Book Award1982

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Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1943 · age 83