Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Jane Goodall
- Early Life
- Born on April 3rd, 1934
- Raised in London, England
- Fascinated by animals and wildlife
- Studies and Employment
- Uplands Private School - 1952
- Secretary at Oxford University
- Visited Kenya and met Louis
Leakey
- Hired as Leakey's assistant
- Research
- Sent to study the vervet monkey in
Lake Victoria
- July 16, 1960- Established a
camp at Lake Tanganyika in the
Gombe Stream Reserve (Africa).
- Within a year of consistent visits to
the primates (behaving like the
apes and gifting food), they
became comfortable with her
- Discoveries
- Apes have a "language"
system with 20+ individual
sounds
- They hunt and eat meat, not
only plants
- Make and use tools
- Throw stones as weapons
- Use touch
and embrace
to comfort
each other
- Develop long-term familial bonds
- Males do not play an active role in family life
- Dominant males are
ranked at the top, related to
the intensity of their
entrance at gatherings
- Published Work
- Seeds of Hope: Wisdom
and Wonder from the Plants
- 2013
- The Chimpanzee Family Book
- 1989
- In the Shadow of Man
- 1971
- Through a Window
- 1990
- My Thoughts on Primates
- Instead of all humans evolving from
apes, it is possible that humans and
apes evolved from humanoids
- Based on climate and
geographical area, evolution
varried
- Some developed
gripping hands and feet
to climb trees (and
other ape-like
characteristics)
- Some developed larger
craniums and intelligence
(and other human-like characteristics)