The world has lost a tireless guardian of nature. Dr. Jane Goodall changed the way we understand animals — and our own ...

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Thousands of years ago, our ancestors took the first step toward reshaping nature by taming animals. From the loyalty of early dogs to the burden-bearing power of hoofed beasts, this moment marked the ...

Beyond primatology, Goodall’s legacy is the generations of women she inspired to follow in her footsteps into fieldwork, says ...

Animal life is a recent addition to Earth, relatively speaking. The planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago, with microbial life likely emerging between 4.3 and 3.7 billion years ago. It was not ...

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute was certainly a rarity among conservationists: She was a household name. For more than six de ...

Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural ...

Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall, whose immersive field research living among chimpanzees in the 1960s essentially ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of ...

Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and ...

The famed primatologist, conservationist, and world-renowned animal behaviorist was one of the most important scientists in the 20th century.