""It was criticized as unscientific," says Mireya Mayor, an anthropologist and primatologist at Florida International University in Miami, "but she proved that science could extend its boundaries without losing rigour.""
"Her discoveries in Gombe National Park "redefined humanity", says Nick Boyle, executive director of Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia."
Jane Goodall, a British primatologist, died on Wednesday 1 October in California at age 91 of natural causes while on a speaking tour, according to the Jane Goodall Institute. She became known for her work with chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, and for being the first to discover that chimpanzees made and used tools. She advocated for conservation, human rights, and animal welfare, including efforts to stop the use of animals in medical research. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in Washington DC in 1977. She humanized primates by naming individuals and showed that chimpanzees have emotions, empathy, culture, eat meat, hunt, and engage in intergroup violence.
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