Maurice Taieb
French geologist and paleoanthropologist (1935–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maurice Taieb (22 July 1935[1] – 23 July 2021) was a French geologist and paleoanthropologist. He discovered the Hadar formation, recognized its potential importance to paleoanthropology and founded the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE). This enabled co-director Donald Johanson to discover an early hominin fossil, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecine Lucy in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.