#1107 Donald Johanson: Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis, and Homo habilis
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Donald Johnson. He is the Virginia M. Ullman Chair in Human Origins and in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the founding director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University.
He has conducted lots of field and laboratory research in paleoanthropology. Most notably, he discovered that the 3.18 million-year-old hominid skeleton, popularly known as Lucy. And today we're going to talk about Lucy, Australopithecus apharensis more generally, and also homohabilis. So, Dr. Johansen, welcome to the show.
It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Well, it's a pleasure for me to be on your show. Thank you so much. Okay, so less tier marked than the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Lucy, and that's one of the main reasons why I invited you on the show. So uh t start by telling us uh first about the history behind her discovery.
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