Johanson in the spotlight on Martha's Vineyard

July 11, 2008

Eminent paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson has been making the rounds on Martha's Vineyard this summer, sharing his knowledge and experiences with the community he has been linked to since 1980, when he began collaborating with the island's late Maitland Edey on Lucy: The Beginnings of Human Kind.

Johanson—who rose to international fame in the early ‘70s for his discovery of "Lucy," an approximately 3.2-million-year-old female hominid skeleton—spoke at several public engagements, met with local science teachers and granted interviews to the Vineyard Gazette and local PLUM TV.

A professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, Johanson is also the director of the world-renowned Institute of Human Origins.

View Johanson's interview with Plum TV.

Read the Vineyard Gazette article.

Rebecca Howe, rebecca.howe@asu.edu
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School of Human Evolution and Social Change