TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — Fifty years ago, Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old. The finding has been revolutionary for ...
New ideas about evolution thanks to a knee bone When paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson first found the skeleton in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, the bones seemed unremarkable. But one ...
anamensis walked on two feet. This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil found by Donald Johanson. A. afarensis' small braincases and relatively large teeth and chewing muscles ...