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Jane Goodall

Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (/???d???l/; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania in 1960. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has served on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project since its founding in 1996.

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I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural ...

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I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are senti ...

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I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. ...

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When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little g ...

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I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explain ...

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As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was ...

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I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up no ...

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In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and ...

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The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than a ...

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I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is tha ...

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I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker ...

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When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals an ...

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