Jane Goodall's Impact on Science

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Jane Goodall Biography Review “There are many windows through which we can look out into the world, searching for meaning. There are those opened up by science, their panes polished by a succession of brilliant, penetrating minds. Through these we can see ever further, ever more clearly, into areas that once lay beyond human knowledge. Gazing through such a window I have, over the years, learned much about chimpanzee behaviour and their place in nature of things. And this, in turn, has helped us to understand a little better some aspects of human behaviour, our own place in nature.” These are the very words of Jane Goodall, a true leader in the research of chimpanzees. The biography I read is called, “Up Close: Jane Goodall” and it is written by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen. After reading this biography, it left me in awe as I began to understand the connection between us, the humans and animals particularly chimpanzees. The book chronologically describes Jane’s personal life and the development of her dream of visiting Africa to explore the wildlife. As she got older, her dream became her own reality in which she got an opportunity to visit the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania, Africa. What was supposed to be a four-month project studying chimpanzees and their behavior in the wild, which had never been done before, became her life’s work. Jane Goodall was interested in the outdoor since childhood. But it was one toy that she received as a toddler that would send her on her life’s path. A stuffed animal, a chimp named Jubilee. Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born on April 3rd 1934 in London, England. While living on a farm at age 4 along with her mother, father and sister, she hid for hours in a hen house to see how hens lay eggs while her worried family called the police to report her missing. This sparked her fascination with animal behavior in which she

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