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This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.


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Johanson, Donald C. Interview. Academy of Achievement, American Academy of Achievement, 23 Feb. 1991.

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Donald Johanson
Donald Johanson
  • Born: June 28, 1943
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

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.