Jane Goodall Sought to Quell Human Savagery

Primatologist Jane Goodall, who recently passed away at age 91, originally traveled to Africa as a 28-year-old woman accompanied by her mother with no college degree to study behavioral and social similarities of primates and humans through direct interactions with them in their environment.

What she learned is both enormously tender and terrifying regarding what her observations teach us about ourselves.

Jane shared her personal story at my home 21 years ago after we first became acquainted at an Explorers’ Club event in West Texas where her discussion of experiences with a community of chimpanzees in Kenyan bush country was the keynote attraction.

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