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Lucy, discovered 50 years ago in Ethiopia, stood just 3.5 feet tall − but she still towers over our understanding of human origins
In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a ...
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Donald Johanson: Unearthing Lucy changed my life and the world
When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, but little did he know just how much it ...
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Arizona State paleontologist talks about 50-year anniversary of his Lucy skeleton discovery
TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — Fifty years ago, Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old. The finding has been revolutionary for ...
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Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson's biggest claim to scientific fame is his discovery 14 years ago of "Lucy," a three-million-year-old fossil hominid, our possible ancestor. Now, Johanson, the ...