Donald Johanson
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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, Ethiopi
Donald Johanson
Australopithecus afarensis
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Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago in the Pliocene of East Africa. The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, b
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…of his eye and recognized it as hominin. Forty percent of the skeleton was eventually recovered and was later described as the first known member of Australopithecus afarensis. Johanson was astonished to find so much of her skeleton all at once. Pamela Alderman, a member of the expedition, suggested she be named "Lucy" after…
Reconstruction of the fossil skeleton of "Lucy" the Australopithecus afarensis
The holotype LH 4
Locations of A. afarensis sites
"Lucy" skeleton reconstruction