Donald Johanson

Donald Johanson and Caroline Wise in Tempe, Arizona

This evening, Caroline and I attended a talk from Donald Johanson. Back in 1974, he discovered fossilized bones from a theretofore unknown hominid and named it Lucy after the famous Beatles song, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” His discovery of Australopithecus afarensis put him in the record books and placed him high on the list of nerd achievement levels Caroline and I have now accumulated by meeting the man face-to-face.

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