Emmie
Emmie
Emmie
In 1973 he discovered AL 129-1, a small but humanlike knee, and the first knee
known from the hominid fossil record. The following year, Johanson and Tom Gray
discovered an even more spectacular find, AL 288-1, a partial skeleton of a female
australopithecine better known by its nickname of Lucy. In 1975 there was yet another
major find when his team found a collection of fossils at a single site which was
nicknamed the First Family. In 1976, more hominid fossils were discovered, along
with stone tools which, at 2.5 million years, were the oldest in the world. After 1976,
political conditions in Ethiopia prevented further expeditions for nearly 15 years.
Johanson, who in 1974 had become a curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural
History, now tackled the task of analyzing the fossils with the aid of Tim White, a
young but highly regarded scientist who had just finished his Ph.D. Johanson had
originally been of the opinion that the Hadar fossils were a mixture
of Homo and Australopithecus specimens, but White eventually convinced him that
all of them belonged to just one species. In 1978 they named that
species Australopithecus afarensis.
Learning Task in
Science
By;
Emmie Rose S. Penano
8-seas
To;
Mr. Benjamin Bodiit
Teacher