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	Donald Johanson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johanson's most acclaimed find occurred in 1974 at Hadar with the discovery of a 1.8 million-year-old partial skeleton of Homo habilis and Lucy, a 3.5 million-year-old nearly complete fossil of a female Australopithecus afarensis.
		Dr. Johanson is an Honorary Board Member of the Explorer Club, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and many other professional organizations.
		Johanson is a recipient of several international prizes and awards including two honorary doctorates.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/johanson_donald.html (319 words)

	Donald Johanson Summary
		Donald Johanson, born June 28, 1943, is an American paleoanthropologist specializing in the study of human evolution.
		Johanson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Swedish immigrants.
		Johanson was extremely lucky in finding Lucy as well because the site Lucy was found on had already been excavated and he was only back at the site because he was showing someone else where the site was located.
	www.bookrags.com /Donald_Johanson (1384 words)

	Biography: Dr. Donald C. Johanson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Donald C. Johanson is one of the world's leading and America's best known paleoanthropologists.
		Johanson's official announcement of Lucy and the First Family in 1978, as the oldest and most primitive species in our ancestry, was an event that captured headlines, catapulted a young, relatively unknown American paleoanthropologist into internation al acclaim, and created a spirited, ongoing controversy among experts world wide.
		Johanson is an Honorary Board Member of the Explorers Club, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and many other professional organizations.
	www.annonline.com /interviews/961204/biography.html (791 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Donald Johanson, who changed history in 1974 with the discovery of the fossil of an apelike creature he named Lucy, is creating a new family tree to help put recent discoveries about ancestors of the human race into perspective.
		Donald Johanson: It is a legendary island, some trace the idea back to Plato who wrote about the massive volcanic eruption on the Island of Thira, that may have brought about the demise of the Minoan civilization.
		Donald Johanson: I found Lucy in 1974 and she is clearly not in the family of the apes.
	cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20010416002/tscript.htm (1732 words)

	Donald Johanson Interview -- Academy of Achievement
		Donald Johanson: No. I suspect that if I had not met Paul Lazer, if I had not had his remarkable influence, I would certainly have been doing something else.
		Donald Johanson: I was particularly intrigued with astronomy.
		Donald Johanson: I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/joh1int-1 (1575 words)

	90.3 WCPN®: Spotlight
		But Dr. Johanson has close ties to Cleveland that stem from the days when his career as an explorer of human origins was just taking off.
		In the early 1970's Dr. Johanson was an assistant professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and also worked at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
		Donald Johanson, the discoverer of Lucy, a 3-million year old skeleton found in Africa in 1974 and believed by scientists to be an ancestor of our modern human species.
	www.wcpn.org /spotlight/news/2001/0423johanson.html (388 words)

	UCM - Donald Johanson to Discuss Historic Discovery
		"Donald Johanson's discovery of Lucy was a pivotal event in the study of human origins," said UCM President Aaron Podolefsky.
		Johanson's visit to UCM was made possible through the auspices of his longtime friend, Central Missouri alumnus Steve Jenne, who graduated from UCM in 1969 with a degree in mass media.
		Johanson currently is a professor of anthropology and director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University.
	www.cmsu.edu /x92141.xml (631 words)

	Biographies: Donald Johanson
		Donald Johanson was born in Chicago in 1943, the son of Swedish immigrants.
		Johanson D.C. and Edey M.A. (1981): Lucy: the beginnings of humankind.
		Johanson D.C. and Shreeve J. (1989): Lucy's child: the discovery of a human ancestor.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/djohanson.html (412 words)

	Amazon.ca: From Lucy To Language: Books: Donald Johanson,Blake Edgar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johanson forcefully argues that race is a superficial cultural construct without any solid genetic basis, and he theorizes that language, a survival mechanism that evolved through natural selection, is intimately linked to our brain's evolution.
		Johanson pays a special attention (locality, age, discoverer, date, place of publication and brief description) to specimens that represent a particular genus and species.
		Donald Johanson's most famous discovery was Lucy, a proto-human female barely a meter tall and among the first hominids to walk upright (about 3.5 million years ago).
	www.amazon.ca /Lucy-Language-Donald-Johanson/dp/0684810239 (1567 words)

	Donald Johanson
		Donald Johanson is famed for his discovery in Ethiopia of AL 288-1, the 3.18 million year Australopithecus afarensis fossils now better known as "Lucy".
		Unearthed 24 November 1974, the discovery pushed back the known date of hominid bipedalism to a significantly earlier period than was previously accepted, supporting earlier theories by Louis Leakey.
		Other significant finds by Johanson have included a group of 2.5 million year old stone tools as well as the so-called "First Family", a 3.2 million year old group of fossils representing 13 different individuals of varying ages.
	www.nndb.com /people/889/000101586 (164 words)

	Donald Johanson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943 in Chicago) is an American paleoanthropologist.
		Johanson, Donald and Maitland Edey (1981) Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.
		Johanson, Donald and Blake Edgar (1996, Revised 2006) From Lucy to Language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Johanson (330 words)

	Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy)
		Johanson completed his doctoral thesis on chimpanzee dentition and spent several seasons in the early 1970s exploring Ethiopia and was impressed with the potential of the Afar region (Johanson, Edey 1980).
		Johanson argues that, considering the vast collection of bones he has compared, the femoral bones show morphological identity and the size difference is attributed to sexual dimorphism (Johanson, White 1979).
		Johanson's discovery of Lucy is significant in our understanding of human evolution because she is the oldest, most complete erect-walking human ancestral skeleton found to date (Johanson, Edey 1980).
	www.anthro4n6.net /lucy (2352 words)

	National Geographic Speakers Bureau: Donald Johanson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the most accomplished scholars of human origins in our time, Johanson has produced some of the field's groundbreaking discoveries, including the most widely known and thoroughly studied fossil of the 20th century—the Lucy skeleton.
		Although the 20th century has been peppered with important early-human fossil finds, it was Johanson's 1974 discovery of a 3.2-million-year-old fossil in Ethiopia that added a crucial link.
		Johanson shares Lucy's discovery in 1974 and explores the lessons learned from looking at humanity through the lens of time.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /speakers/profile_johanson.html (310 words)

	Contents: Basics of evolution
		It was discovered by Donald Johanson in 1973 at Hadar in Ethiopia (Johanson and Edey 1981; Johanson and Taieb 1976).
		It was discovered by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray in 1974 at Hadar in Ethiopia (Johanson and Edey 1981; Johanson and Taieb 1976).
		Johanson believes they belong to a single species in which males were considerably larger than females.
	library.thinkquest.org /27885/afarensis.htm (663 words)

	UCM - Johanson Announces Discovery During UCM Visit
		Johanson, who is known for the history 1974 discovery of "Lucy," an adult female Austraolpithecus afarensis that lived about 3 million years ago, made the announcement Wednesday morning as he signed copies of his latest book, the second printing of From Lucy to Language.
		Johanson traced the history of mankind as documented through paleoanthropologic study and explained the importance of paleoanthropology to the full understanding of mankind's history, as well as its potential effect on the future of the species.
		Johanson's visit to the university was made possible through his longstanding friendship with CMSU alumnus Steve Jenne, who made the initial invitation to Johanson.
	www.cmsu.edu /x92917.xml (494 words)

	Donald Johanson Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Donald C. Johanson was born in Chicago, Illinois.
		Johanson's mother worked as a cleaning lady to support them in far more modest circumstances, but always encouraged Johanson to study and prepare himself for a rewarding career.
		Although Johanson did poorly on the Standardized Aptitude Test, an anthropologist neighbor encouraged him in his ambitions to become a scientist, and he was accepted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/joh1bio-1 (808 words)

	Donald C Johanson
		Johanson was one of many scientists scheduled to speak at a Nobel Symposium in Sweden in May. The conference would honor Mary Leakey, who would receive a medal from the King of Sweden for her scientific work.
		She and Donald Johanson, a paleontologist at the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, Calif., have feuded about the relation between early humans found in Ethiopia and in Laetoli.
		Johanson, who has often said that Lucy was fully adapted to a modern style of bipedality, claims (Johanson and Edgar 1996) that the A. afarensis foot bones found at Hadar, when scaled down to an individual of Lucy's size, fit the prints perfectly.
	www.ntz.info /gen/n00272.html (6189 words)

	SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Search for the First Human \| PBS
		Johanson: The difference between an apes's skeleton, a creature that walks on all fours, and a human ancestor that walked on only two legs is very obvious in the anatomy of the knee and the hip.
		Johanson: Our current research projects at the institute continue to focus on the period of time when Lucy lived and recently in Ethiopia, we found another skull of her species.
		Johanson: Ramipithicus is now considered to be an ancestor to modern orangutans, the early suggestion in the 1960s that Ramipithicus was a link between apes and humans was based on an erroneous reconstruction of the upper jaw.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_firsthuman/chat.html (1996 words)

	Instutute of Human Origins
		Johanson's book, LUCY: THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMANKIND, winner of the 1981 American Book Award in Science, intimately chronicles his discovery of the remarkable 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton and highlights its importance for comprehending who we are and where we came from.
		Johanson's career, now spanning 30 years since he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, has led him to undertake field explorations in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Eritrea, and most recently Iran.
		At present, Johanson's primary goal is to further IHO's prominence by attaining a position of world leadership in the study of human origins and evolution.
	www.asu.edu /clas/iho/people/johanson.html (595 words)

	On November 26, 1986, Donald Johanson gave a lecture at the University of Missouri at Kans
		On November 26, 1986, Donald Johanson gave a lecture at the University of Missouri at Kansas City at which creationist Tom Willis was present.
		During the question and answer session, someone asked Johanson, "How far away from Lucy did you find the knee?" Johanson responded, "60 to 70 meters lower in the strata and two to three kilometers away." "The knee" here means the 1973 knee joint, not Lucy's knee.
		Either Johanson misunderstood a questioner who was asking about Lucy's knee, or Tom Willis misunderstood both the question and the answer.
	www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/lucyevo.htm (631 words)

	Donald Johanson - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Donald Johanson - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Johanson, Donald Carl, born in 1943, American paleoanthropologist specializing in the study of human evolution.
		Research teams led by American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and his French colleague Maurice Taieb made equally spectacular finds in Ethiopia...
	encarta.msn.com /Donald_Johanson.html (105 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lucy : The Beginnings of Humankind: Books: Maitland Edey,Donald Johanson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Another of Johanson's follies is his dependence upon "the Lovejoy hypothesis" of bipedal locomotion being a biological response to a need to carry food and tools.
		Johanson's role should be known to most, but this personal relation endures as a landmark for those interested in the development of humanity.
		Johanson's respect is deserved, both as a writer and field researcher.
	www.amazon.ca /Lucy-Beginnings-Humankind-Maitland-Edey/dp/0671724991 (1578 words)

	Renowned Anthropologist Donald Johanson to Speak at CMSU Sept. 20 \| digitalBURG.com
		Johanson will conduct the first book signing event for the publisher's release of the book from 11 to 11:45 a.m.
		"Donald Johanson's discovery of Lucy was a pivotal event in the study of the origins of human origins," said CMSU President Aaron Podolefsky.
		Johanson's visit to CMSU was made possible through the auspices of his longtime friend, CMSU alumnus Steve Jenne, who graduated from CMSU in 1969 with a degree in mass media.
	www.digitalburg.com /artman/publish/article_2527.shtml (564 words)

	Amazon.de: Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind: English Books: Donald C. Johanson,Maitland Armstrong Edey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johanson shows both his strengths and weaknesses in this largely enthralling look at risks and rewards of paleoanthropology.
		Johanson has almost convinced me to do paleoanthropology for a living rather than as a hobby.
		Johanson has a writing style that instantly draws the reader into the book.
	www.amazon.de /Lucy-Beginnings-Humankind-Donald-Johanson/dp/0671250361 (630 words)

	TIME.com: Happy Hominid -- Mar. 16, 1981 -- Page 1
		Since Johanson is driven by the same combination of curiosity, daring and egotism, Lucy is both enlivened and marred by a lack of objectivity.
		Johanson is convinced that he is now in sole possession of the truth about human roots—and perhaps he is.
		Johanson speculates that it may all have had to do with the family.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,922479,00.html (769 words)

	Donald C. Johanson (1943)
		Johanson wrote about his discoveries, adventures and revolutionary ideas in a series of best-selling books.
		Lucy, chronicled the exciting find and the heated debates which ensued; Lucy's Child covers his subsequent discoveries in Tanzania (including some of the bitter feuds in the world of physical anthropology —; particularly his quarrels with Richard Leakey and the group at the State University of Stony Brook in New York).
		Johanson was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1943; earning his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1974.
	www.stephenjaygould.org /ctrl/news/donald_johanson.html (276 words)

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