Our Legacy of Science
The way she saw the world changed the world.
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From the day she began her legendary chimpanzee research in Gombe, Jane Goodall took an unorthodox approach to her subjects. She immersed herself in their forest habitat with the fresh perspective of a mind uncluttered by academia. She set a new standard for the study of apes in the wild, experiencing their complex society as a fellow neighbour rather than a remote observer, and coming to know and interact with them as individuals over many years.
With open eyes and an open mind, Dr. Jane Goodall made discoveries that rocked the scientific world, forever changing the way we look at our closest living relatives—and ourselves.
Jane’s Five Epic Discoveries
The revolutionary discoveries that Dr. Goodall made through her field work with chimpanzees are a wonder of the scientific world. Her findings suggest that many behaviors once thought to be exclusively human may have been inherited from common ancestors that we shared with chimpanzees millions of years ago. The more we discover about these kindred beings, the deeper our insight into what it means to be human.
1. Chimpanzees Make and Use Tools
2. Chimpanzees Hunt and Eat Meat
3. Waging War Is Not Only Human
4. Chimpanzees Have Strong Mother/Infant Bonds
5. Compassion Runs Deep
“Jane Goodall’s trailblazing path for other women primatologists is arguably her greatest legacy. During the last third of the twentieth century, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas, Cheryl Knott, Penny Patterson and many more women have followed her. Indeed, women now dominate long-term primate behavioural studies worldwide.”
GILBERT GROSVENOR, FORMER CHAIRMAN, THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
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