article_title name birth_date
maurice taieb
 maurice taieb 1935
maurice taieb

maurice taieb -lrb- born 1935 -rrb- is a french geologist and paleoanthropologist .
he discovered the hadar formation , recognised its potential importance to paleoanthropology and founded the international afar research expedition -lrb- iare -rrb- .
this enabled co-director donald johanson to discover the 3.2-million-year-old australopithecine fossil lucy fossil in the awash valley of ethiopia 's afar depression .
