Jane Goodall, quoted in "The Fascinating Chimpanzee", Awake!, 8 January 1985 pg. 27, citing an interview by WWF News (World Wildlife Fund)
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Studying chimps ‘has helped me to realize, perhaps more than anything else, just how different we are from them’.
— Jane Goodall on Chimpanzees
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About Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE, born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall (3 April 1934 – 1 October 2025), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, was an English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist most famous for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. She also founded the Jane Goodall Institute. In April 2002, she was named a UN Messenger of Peace.
About Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE, born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall (3 April 1934 – 1 October 2025), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, was an English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist most famous for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. She also founded the Jane Goodall Institute. In April 2002, she was named a UN Messenger of Peace.
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