from the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. - Jane Goodall
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from the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. She is best-known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania and she did that for 45 years. She also founded the Jane Goodall Institute. In April 2002, she was named a UN Messenger of Peace,
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The naturalist,” Jane said, “looks for the wonder of nature — she listens to the voice of nature and learns from nature as she tries to understand it. Whereas a scientist is more focused on facts and the desire to quantify. For a scientist, the question is, ‘Why is this adaptive? How does it contribute to the survival of the species?
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