Donald C. Johanson
Forfatter af Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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Image credit: Dr. Donald Johanson, founding director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, poses with his discovery, the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton, part of the "Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia" exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York, Wednesday June 24, 2009.
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- Johanson, Donald Carl
- Fødselsdato
- 1943-06-28
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- male
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- USA
- Fødested
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Chicago (PhD) - Erhverv
- paleoanthropologist
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When Donald Johanson found a partical skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues on today. Bursting with all the suspense and intrigue of a fast paced adventure novel, here is Johanson’s lively account of the extraordinary discovery of “Lucy.” By expounding the controversial change Lucy makes in our view of human origins, Johanson provides a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of the history of pealeoanthropology and the colorful, eccentric characters who were and are a part of it. Never before have the mystery and intricacy of our origins been so clearly and compellingly explained as in this astonighing and dramatic book.… (mere)