"Ethiopia Yields First 'Family' of Early Man"
Magazine article
By: Donald C. Johanson
Date: December 1976
Source: Johanson, Donald C. "Ethiopia Yields First 'Family' of Early Man." National Geographic 150, December 1976, 791–793.
About the Author: Donald C. Johanson (1943–) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1974. That year, he became curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio. Johanson rose to world fame by his discovery of Lucy, a 40 percent complete skeleton of an Australopithecine female. In 1981, he founded the Institute of Human Origins at Berkeley, California.
Introduction
British naturalist Charles Darwin announced in On the Origin of Species (1859) that all life, including humans, evolved from primitive ancestors. Three years earlier, a teacher in Germany, Carl Fuhlrott, identified a partial skeleton...
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