Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall
Goodall in Tanzania in 2018
Born
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall

(1934-04-03) 3 April 1934 (age 90)
London, England
EducationNewnham College, Cambridge (BA)
Darwin College, Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Known forStudy of chimpanzees, conservation, animal welfare
Spouses
(m. 1964; div. 1974)
Derek Bryceson
(m. 1975; died 1980)
Children1
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEthology
ThesisBehaviour of free-living chimpanzees (1966)
Doctoral advisorRobert Hinde[1]
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Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (/ˈɡʊdɔːl/; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934),[3] formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist.[4] She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in 1960.[5]

She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. As of 2022, she is on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project.[6] In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall is an honorary member of the World Future Council.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference goodphd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Dame Jane Goodall". Woman's Hour. 26 January 2010. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ^ The Biography Channel (2010). "Jane Goodall Biography". Archived from the original on 10 August 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
  4. ^ Holloway, M. (1997) Profile: Jane Goodall – Gombe's Famous Primate, Scientific American 277(4), 42–44.
  5. ^ "Jane in the Forest Again". National Geographic. April 2003. Archived from the original on 10 December 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Jane Goodall, Board Member". Nonhuman Rights Project. Retrieved 13 November 2022.