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Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ d ɔː l /; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), [3] formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist. [4] She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild ...
The Trimates, [1] [2] sometimes called Leakey's Angels, [3] is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, [4] and Birutė Galdikas — chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments.
The 1994 book The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity, edited by philosophers Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer, features contributions from thirty-four authors, including Jane Goodall and Richard Dawkins, who have submitted articles voicing their support for the project. The authors write that human beings are intelligent animals with a ...
Jane Goodall, the famed anthropologist, is celebrating her 90th birthday. ... not just the apes and the monkeys, but the whales and the dolphins and the elephants and the lions and the crows and ...
The 90-year-old legendary primatologist is empowering the next generation of environmental changemakers.
It turns out you don’t have to be Jane Goodall to understand apes. Even untrained humans can decipher ape communication, including gestures related to grooming and sex, according to a new study ...
Jane Goodall is known for her research on chimpanzees. [32] The outbreak of the war shocked her, [ 4 ] as she had previously considered chimpanzees to be, although similar to human beings, "rather 'nicer ' ". [ 27 ]
Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes , evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , philosophers Paola Cavalieri and ...