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Donald Carl Johanson

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Donald Carl Johanson was born on 28 June 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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    • Known for

    Leonard Nimoy in In Search of... (1976)
    In Search of...
    8.4
    TV Series
    • Self
    Your Inner Fish (2014)
    Your Inner Fish
    8.7
    TV Series
    • Self(as Don Johanson)
    David Ogden Stiers, Stacy Keach, Neil Ross, Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, J.T. Turner, and David Pogue in Nova (1974)
    Nova
    8.7
    TV Series
    • Self - Institute of Human Origins
    The Age of Humans (2024)
    The Age of Humans
    • Self - Narrator
    • 2024

    Credits

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    Thanks

    • The Changing Ape (2010)
      The Changing Ape
      TV Movie
      • special thanks (as Donald Johanson)
      • 2010

    Self

    • Arte Journal (1998)
      Arte Journal
      4.7
      TV Series
      • Self
      • 2025
    • The Age of Humans (2024)
      The Age of Humans
      • Self - Narrator
      • 2024
    • David Ogden Stiers, Stacy Keach, Neil Ross, Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, J.T. Turner, and David Pogue in Nova (1974)
      Nova
      8.7
      TV Series
      • Self - Institute of Human Origins
      • 2009–2016
    • A Better Life: An Exploration of Joy & Meaning in a World Without God (2015)
      A Better Life: An Exploration of Joy & Meaning in a World Without God
      7.5
      • Self
      • 2015
    • Your Inner Fish (2014)
      Your Inner Fish
      8.7
      TV Series
      • Self (as Don Johanson)
      • 2014
    • Prehistoric Autopsy (2012)
      Prehistoric Autopsy
      7.5
      TV Mini Series
      • Self
      • 2012
    • Rodney Brooks, Robert Krulwich, Jacob Ward, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sherry Turkle, Carla Wohl, Ziya Tong, Kristi Curry Rogers, David Pogue, Raymond Rogers, Mary Schweitzer, Peter Standring, Manel Esteller, Derek Briggs, Brian Hare, David Spergel, Jim Gillogly, Chad Cohen, James Sanborn, Jennifer Wittmeyer, Ed Scheidt, Elonka Dunin, Said Musa, Arlie Petters, Bernice Waight, Jean-Pierre Issa, and Randy Jirtle in Nova ScienceNow (2005)
      Nova ScienceNow
      8.5
      TV Series
      • Self (as Donald Johanson)
      • 2012
    • 60 Minutes (1968)
      60 Minutes
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Self - Paleoanthropologist (segment "Discovery")
      • 2010
    • Nova: In Search of Human Origins (1994)
      Nova: In Search of Human Origins
      8.2
      TV Mini Series
      • Self - Presenter
      • 1994–1997
    • The Dick Cavett Show (1989)
      The Dick Cavett Show
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Self - Guest (as Donald Johanson)
      • 1989
    • F. Murray Abraham, Peter Coyote, Allison Argo, David Attenborough, Paul Christie, John Benjamin Hickey, Howard McGillin, George Page, Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, Nora Young, Toby Leonard Moore, and Chris Morgan in Nature (1982)
      Nature
      8.9
      TV Series
      • Self - Host
      • 1982
    • Leonard Nimoy in In Search of... (1976)
      In Search of...
      8.4
      TV Series
      • Self
      • 1982

    Archive Footage

    • 60 Minutes (1968)
      60 Minutes
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Self - Paleoanthropologist (archive footage, segment "Discovery")
      • 2010
    • Naked Science (2004)
      Naked Science
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Self - Paleoanthropologist (archive footage, as Donald Carl Johanson Ph.D.)
      • 2004

    Personal details

    • Alternative names
      • Donald Johanson
    • Born
      • June 28, 1943
      • Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Did you know

    • Trivia
      Paleoanthropologist, he is one of the co-discoverers in 1974 of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) in along with Yves Coppens and Maurice Taieb.

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