The paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, “father” of “Lucy”, a fossil of 3 million years, on Saturday visited the exhibition “The Cradle of Mankind” at the Museum of Human Evolution (MEH), a sample of which he is the protagonist for his discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
Accompanied by the Scientific Director of the MEH, Juan Luis Arsuaga, American has toured the exhibition which shown the importance of findings that African area, known as the “Cradle of Humanity”. Johanson, accompanied by an expedition of “National Geographic”, also visited the Atapuerca and the permanent exhibition of the Museum MEH sources have reported in a statement.
American paleoanthropologist in 1986 discovered the fossil remains OH group of 62, drawn from a stratum of 1.8 million years old and belonging to the species Homo habilis lower. The Olduvai Gorge is a unique territory, as the region of the world where are represented the most important stages of human evolution from two million years ago to the present.
There he discovered the first representative of the genus Homo, Homo habilis , and there also excavated legendary figures like the saga of the Leakey.
This is the second time that the American scientist goes to MEH and Atapuerca. The above was the September 28, 2013, also in an issue of National Geographic. The path is linked to Donald Johanson MEH also because it exposes in the gallery of hominids in ground zero, a reconstruction of Lucy’s own , discovered by American scientist.
is one of nine hominid hyperrealist sculptures made by French sculptor Elizabeth Dayness. The Lucy skeleton was found on November 24, 1974 during an anthropological mission led by Donald Johanson in Ethiopia. The finding allowed to try for the first time that the ancestors of man could walk upright 3.2 million years ago.
skeleton, which was discovered at around 40%, was given the name Lucy by a Beatles song, “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”, which sounded at the time paleontologists found the bones.
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