In an article for The New York Post, Jonathan Leaf, author of the recent released book The Primate Myth, remembers Jane Goodall. “Jane Goodall died Wednesday. As she was universally regarded as the greatest living expert on chimpanzees, her passing is a momentous event.
It’s one that comes at a time of upheaval in the field she helped create.
Goodall’s career commenced when she traveled to Tanzania in 1960 and began studying chimps in the wild.
Some of her revelations, like the discovery chimps can make simple tools, showed their commonality with us.”