biography
| name: |
Johanson, Donald (Carl)
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pronunciation:
[johhanson]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Palaeoanthropologist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A graduate of Chicago University, he worked at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where he became curator in 1974. His spectacular finds of fossil hominids 3–4 million years old at Hadar in the Afar triangle of Ethiopia (1972–7) generated worldwide interest. They include ‘Lucy’, a unique female specimen that is half complete, and the so-called ‘First Family’, a scattered group containing the remains of 13 individuals. Since 1981 he has been director of the Institute of Human Origins, Berkeley, CA, and from 1986 began conducting fieldwork in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. |
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