Quotes about Donald Johanson

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when...

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In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy....

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I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

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I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My...

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I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my...

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I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how...

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But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that...

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But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity...

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As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs....

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And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where...

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When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s,...

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When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor,...

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