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JOHANSON, Donald Carl (1943 – )

JOHANSON, Donald Carl (1943 – )

1943 –

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source by courtesy of Don Johanson personally · received in december 2006 by User:Gerbil from de.Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

1976

#214.3

Plio-Pleistocene hominid discoveries in Hadar, Ethiopia.

Report on the Afar fossils (formally classified and named Australopithiecus afaranesis in 1998) representing a minimum of 35 and a maximum of 65 individuals, all about 3,000,000 years old. The most famous of these, AL…

1978

#7277

A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa.

Johanson and colleagues formally named the species Afarensis of the genus Australopithecus in 1978.