Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had…

— Donald Johanson

I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of…

— Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

— Donald Johanson

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that…

— Donald Johanson

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of…

— Donald Johanson

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up…

— Donald Johanson

If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally…

— Donald Johanson

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to…

— Donald Johanson

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has…

— Donald Johanson

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

— Donald Johanson

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this…

— Donald Johanson

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never…

— Donald Johanson

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

— Donald Johanson