November 2010
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TED Jane Goodall Helps Animals and Humans Live... →
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Happy Thanksgiving from Jane
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Send a Jane Goodall Institute Thanksgiving E-Card →
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The Literary Collective: Things that made me cry... →
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So, if you didn’t know, one of my majors is Anthropology, and right now I’m in a human origins class that has a lot of talk about chimpanzees as our closest common ancestors (this doesn’t mean we evolved from them, but rather that they are the last branch off our lineage, put simply). One of our required readings was Jane Goodall’s Through a Window, which I finished last...
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Monitoring the Health of Endangered, Wild... →
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Intellect of Non-Human Great Apes Likely to be... →
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A new study will examine the extent to which common designs of comparative psychology research, which rates humans as more advanced than apes, are fatally flawed.
Professor Kim Bard, a comparative developmental psychologist from the University of Portsmouth, has spent a lifetime studying great apes, their cognitive development and what sets them apart from humans.
She has won a...
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A Conversation With Jane Goodall: 50 Years of...
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Q. When you first reported chimp tool use, Dr. Leakey declared, “We must now redefine man, redefine tool or accept chimpanzees as human!” Did that ever happen?
A. It’s never happened. Every time someone has shown that chimpanzees or any other animal possesses a characteristic which we used to think was unique to us, there’s an outcry from either scientists or...