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EVOLUTIONARY EXPERT ON CHIMPANZEES VALERIE JANE MORRIS-GOODALL BORN 1934 Home Page: home Previous Person:Mary Leakey Next Person: Scopes Trial

Jane Goodall (full name Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall), born in 1934 is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist and UN Messenger of Peace. For more than forty-fife years Jane Goodall studied the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania. She is founder of the ‘Jane Goodall Institute’ and known as the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees.
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Already in her childhood, Jane Goodall was interested in observing animals and her big dream was to go to Africa and study exotic animals in their natural habitats. So Jane Goodall went to a friend’s farm in Kenya. There she had the opportunity to meet Louis Leakey (an archeologist and paleontologist in Kenya). At that time Louis Leakey was working on a project and he wanted Jane Goodall to observe chimpanzees. He hired Jane Goodall, where she started her researches on chimpanzees.
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In 1960, Jane Goodall started to study the social and family life of chimpanzees in Tanzania. Even though, she hadn’t had a collegiate training, she observed many things, that no one had ever realized before. Jane Goodall was the first scientist, that gave the chimpanzees names, like Fifi or David Greybeard. All the other observers numbered the animals. Jane Goodall observed that all the chimpanzees had an individual personality, which was an unconventional idea at that time. Jane Goodall saw similar behaviors that people have, like kisses, hugs or tickling. But she also saw that curtain chimpanzees ate meat and went together to hunt. Jane Goodall was the first person that observed certain similarities between humans and chimpanzees, which weren’t just the genes. She could also prove emotions, intelligence and relationships, which made her an evolutionary expert on chimpanzees.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Paper Press.. (2011, December 4). Scientist Sunday: Leakey’s Angels Part I, Jane Goodall « Ink Chromatography. Ink Chromatography. Retrieved January 15, 2013, from http://inkchromatography.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/scientist-sunday-leakeys-angels-jane-goodall/

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Jane Goodall – Wikipedia. (2012, December 21). Wikipedia – Die freie Enzyklopädie. Retrieved January 15, 2013, from http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Klein, S. (2011, August 20). Jane Goodall: Eine Affenliebe | Wissen | ZEIT ONLINE. ZEIT ONLINE | Nachrichten, Hintergründe und Debatten. Retrieved January 15, 2013, from http://www.zeit.de/2011/34/Forschung-Jane-Goodall