Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
Donald Johanson Quotes
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
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| Birth: | 28th June, 1943 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Paleontologist |
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Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. Along with Maurice Taieb and Yves Coppens, he is known for discovering the fossil of a female hominid australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.
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