Chimpanzees are capable of complex emotions. While this is common knowledge today, it was not in the 1960s. It was not until Jane Goodall began working in the field of animal research that this ...

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 ...

I remember little from my early years in central London, though the city still feels like an echo of home. I was 4 years old when we left, and my childhood memories exist mostly as fragments: my ...

On the Thursday, November 27, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Dr. Jane Goodall reshaped our understanding of the natural world. Author Douglas Abrams, who co-wrote “The Book of Hope” with Jane ...

One of the world's most renowned primatologists, Dr. Jane Goodall, passed away at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Goodall made numerous groundbreaking discoveries about chimpanzees and ...

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson In the beginning, Jane Goodall named the chimpanzees. This was controversial. It was 1960, back when scientists weren’t ...

We have recently read a lot about the remarkable life's work of the great chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, who passed away on 1 October 2025. We learned that the Kenyan archaeologist and ...