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Read an interview with 'Lucy' discoverer Donald C. Johanson...
Paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson is the man who found the woman that shook up our family tree. In 1974, Johanson discovered a 3.2 million-year-old fossil of a female skeleton in Ethiopia that would forever change our understanding of human origins. Dubbed Australopithecus afarensis, she became known to the world as Lucy. In the years since, Johanson and his colleagues have unearthed a total of 363 specimens of Australopithecus afarensis that span 400,000 years. His new book, Lucy's legacy: The Quest for Human Origins picks up where his 1981 New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginning...
...Even Don Johanson, who discovered Lucy (the new species Australopithecus afarensis) in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974, musters some support for putting her on display. In his first public comment about "Lucy's Legacy," he tells TIME: "While I cannot overemphasize my personal concerns for Lucy's safety, a broader exposure of Lucy to the public does have great educational value. Seeing the original Lucy will surely heighten public awareness of human origins studies, particularly at a time when the validity of evolution has come under fire in our schools...
...Gary Johanson, medical director of the Memorial Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Santa Rosa, Calif., says that when an incapacitated patient hasn't left a living will or designated someone to make his or her medical decisions, families agree on what to do anyway in about two-thirds of the cases his center sees. When relatives quarrel, he notes, it's typically over old baggage. "Maybe one person feels estranged [from the patient] and now feels guilty if they don't try everything...
...American Center for Law and Justice, which has worked on behalf of Schiavo's parents, doubts that their efforts will motivate more families to take conflicts to court. Instead, he says, "I think people will be much more specific in what they want their medical treatment to be." Indeed, Johanson says that at his hospice, the case is "creating fear in patients that their wishes will not be met"; many are responding by "getting things down on paper." Keith Tighe says he and his brothers have reacted to the news by getting advance directives. A TIME poll last week found...