Donald Johanson
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 82 |
| Date of birth | June 28,1943 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Chicago |
| Illinois | |
| United States | |
| Field | Paleoanthropology |
| Founded | Institute Of Human Origins |
| Job | Anthropologist |
| Author | |
| Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| The University of Chicago | |
| Carl Schurz High School | |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | |
| Books | Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins |
| Journey from the dawn | |
| Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution | |
| Ancestors | |
| Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind | |
| From Lucy to Language | |
| Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor | |
| Known for | hominid |
| Australopithecus afarensis | |
| Lucy | |
| Nationality | American |
| Awards | National Book Award for Science (Hardcover) |
| Nominations | National Book Award for Science (Hardcover) |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 461623 |
Donald Johanson Life story
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.