Donald Johanson
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Donald C. Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist known for his discovery of the skeleton of a 3.18 million year old female hominid in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. The skeleton was found on November 30, 1974 and was dubbed "Lucy". Dr. Johanson established the Institute of Human Origins, in Berkeley, California in 1981.

Bibliography

• Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey, Lucy: The Beginnings of Human Evolution, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1981 ISBN 0-67125-0361

See also

• Multi-regional origin

External links

• Bio: Dr. Donald C. Johanson
• Donald Johanson. Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa? (2001)

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