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Jane Goodall is the first of the great female scientists featured in this book whom the reader can still see in action in the early 2020s. She was born on 3 April 1934, the same year that Marie Curie died, and at over 80 she is still going on lecture tours. For thirty years, the primatologist and anthropologist researched the behaviour of wild chimpanzees in Africa, and her findings have forced humanity to rethink its relationship to the animal world. Over forty films and numerous reports have made the name of Jane Goodall world famous.
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Read more at www.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/the-right-jane.
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Neale McDevitt, “It’s Been a Long Journey”, McGill Reporter, 1 October 2019, read at: https://reporter.mcgill.ca/its-been-a-long-journey-jane-goodall-tells-beatty-lecture-audience/.
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Biography, Jane Goodall Institute UK: https://www.janegoodall.org.uk/jane-goodall/biography.
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Jane Goodall, Learning from the Chimpanzees: A Message Humans Can Understand, Science, 282 (1998), pp. 2184–2185.
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Interview with Liesa Bauer, published in: Spektrum Kompakt, issue 50/2019: Be-/Verkannt - Frauen in der Wissenschaft, available at www.spektrum.de/news/jane-goodall-ein-leben-fuer-die-schimpansen/1545469.
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Jane Goodall, Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe, 1986, now available from: Mariner Books (2010).
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Oral statement by Jane Goodall at the Understanding Chimpanzees conference hosted by the Chicago Academy of Sciences, held in Chicago in 1986. Quoted here from: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/17/africa/jane-goodall-conservation/index.html.
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Jane Goodall, Through a Window, Mariner Books (1990).
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Interview with Alice Winkler for the American Academy of Achievement’s “What it takes” podcast, 18 May 2018, read at https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/what-it-takes-jane-goodall/4364308.html.
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Jaeger, L. (2023). Jane Goodall (*1934): The Great Lady of Primate Research. In: Women of Genius in Science . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23926-7_15
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