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Donald C. Johanson

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in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

June 28, 1943

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Science, History, Nonfiction

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Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia. ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 4,292 ratings · 224 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald C. Johanson, Maitland A. Edey 4.15 avg rating — 2,859 ratings — published 1981 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins by Donald C. Johanson, Kate Wong 3.98 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans by G.J. Sawyer, Viktor Deak, Esteban Sarmiento 3.97 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded by Donald C. Johanson, Blake Edgar, David Brill (Photographer) 4.30 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor by Donald C. Johanson, James Shreeve 3.86 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 1989 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution by Maitland A. Edey, Donald C. Johanson 4.16 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins by Donald C. Johanson, Lenora Johanson, Blake Edgar 3.86 avg rating — 78 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey from the Dawn: Life With the World's First Family by Donald C. Johanson, Kevin O'Farrell 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Skull of Australopithecus afarensis (Human Evolution Series) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecce Homo: Writings in Honour of Third-Millenium Man it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The brain is the hungriest organ in the body, with a metabolic rate sixteen times that of muscle tissue per unit weight. In modern humans, it accounts for 20 to 25 percent of an adult’s energy needs.”
― Donald C. Johanson, Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

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“To probe our past beyond afarensis was to fall into a wormhole— and emerge on the other side 9 million years earlier, in the Miocene epoch.”
― Donald C. Johanson, Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

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“Should further discoveries bear this out, the robust australopithecines will stand as a rare example of parallel evolution, in which members of two descendant lineages of A. afarensis independently evolved similar adaptations, presumably in response to environmental change.”
― Donald C. Johanson, Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

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