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Donald Johanson
Donald Carl Johanson 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.
BornDonald Carl Johanson, June 28, 1943, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
FieldsPaleoanthropology
InstitutionsArizona State University
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Chicago
Known forDiscovery of a new hominid, Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy")

About Donald Johanson

Paleontologist Donald Johanson was born on June 28, 1943 in Illinois, United States (He's 80 years old now).

Paleoanthropologist born in Chicago who was a member of the team that discovered"Lucy", a hominid australopithecine fossil, in Ethiopia in 1974. He founded the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California, in 1981.

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Donald Johanson before becoming famous

Donald Johanson was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1943 is also the year of Goat (羊) in the Chinese Zodiac.

After studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Achievement of Donald Johanson

After teaching at Case Western Reserve University and Arizona State University, he founded the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California.

Donald Johanson's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He and two other paleoanthropologists, Maurice Taieb and Yves Coppens, discovered"Lucy", the oldest humanoid fossil at the time.

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His fossil discovery was named"Lucy" after the famous Beatles song"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (written by Rock Singer John Lennon).

Donald Johanson Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Donald Johanson updated on March 17 2023.