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“Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human,” the famous paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey said when he was informed about Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking discovery that chimpanzees prepare simple tools by stripping leaves from twigs to fish for termites. A bit more than 100 years after the publication of Darwin’s On the origin of species, the anthropocentric worldview was shattered once again. Jane Goodall’s scientific work encourages us to reevaluate our relationship to the nonhuman world. This alone would grant Jane Goodall a position in the hall of fame of green heroes. But her activism for animals, nature and the human environment are no less important than her scientific achievements.
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Erdös, L. (2023). Jane Goodall’s Work for Animals, Nature, and the Human Environment. In: Brinkmann, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01949-4_176
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