Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human

Photo: Dr. Jane Goodall in Gombe National Park. Photo credit: SFU – Communications & Marketing via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Mireya Mayor. The Conversation – updated October 1, 2025.

Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall. Goodall’s life journey stretches from marveling at the somewhat unremarkable creatures – though she would never call them that – in her English backyard as a wide-eyed little girl in the 1930s to challenging the very definition of what it means to be human through her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania. From there, she went on to become a global icon and a United Nations Messenger of Peace. […]

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