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In July 1960, at the age of 26 Jane Goodall traveled from England to Tanzania, and went into the world of wild chimpanzees. “When Jane Goodall entered the forest of Gombe, the world knew very little about chimpanzees, and even less about their unique genetic kinship to humans.” She took an unorthodox approach in her field research about their species. Jane Goodall’s discovery in 1960 that chimpanzees make and use tools is considered one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. Her field research at Gombe transformed our understanding of chimpanzees and redefined the relationship between humans and animals in […]
