This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by his given name, Yohannes, and not as Haile-Selassie.
Yohannes began his tertiary education at the Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa, graduating in the summer of 1982 with a B.A. degree in history. His first job was at the Center for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Addis Ababa.[4]
Yohannes is well known in the field of paleoanthropology for having a gift for fossil spotting, with his first fossil hunting expedition (White's Middle Awash Project) taking place in 1990. He has been instrumental in the discoveries of the type specimen (principal reference fossil) for Australopithecus garhi and Ardipithecus kadabba (both discovered in 1997), and he has also found fossil specimens of Ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithecus afarensis, and species of Homo including Homo erectus, as well as Homo sapiens. Since 2004, he has led digs in the Milleworeda of the Afar Region of Ethiopia (the Woranso-Mille Project). In June 2010, Yohannes published a paper describing Kadanuumuu, one of the specimens his group found in Afar.[6]
^Haile-Selassie, Yohannes (2009). "New hominid fossils from Woranso-Mille (Central Afar, Ethiopia) and taxonomy of early Australopithecus". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 141 (3): 406–17. doi:10.1002/ajpa.21159. PMID19918995.
^Haile-Selassie, Y.; Gibert, L.; Melillo, S. M.; Ryan, T. M.; Alene, M.; Deino, A.; Levin, N. E.; Scott, G.; Saylor, B. Z. (2015). "New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity". Nature. 521 (7553): 483–8. Bibcode:2015Natur.521..483H. doi:10.1038/nature14448. PMID26017448. S2CID4455029. "New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity"