Jane Goodall

"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves"

Women, anthropologist, and primatologist, Jane Goodall has dedicated her life to comprehend the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees, and not for nothing is considered the world's most foremost expert in the topic. She has passed over 55-years studying chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania since 1960. Besides that, she is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots and Shoots programme. She has been part of the board of the Nonhuman Rights project and been named a UN Messenger of Peace.

Wath is not to admire about this woman. Chimpanzees besides Bonobos are our more close relatives as primates. And Goodall whit her research debunked two of the scientific trues about chimpanzees in that time, that only humans could construct and use tools, and that chimpanzees were vegetarians.

She would observe how chimpanzees would use twigs and other items in their environment and change them to serve their porpuses, which could be identified by her as forms of object modification, the rudimentary beginnings of toolmaking. This is fundamental because as human we cannot differentiate ourselves from as the only primate and mammal capable toolmaking anymore. It shows too what could have been the behavior of our evolutionary ancestors. That is why I love her job!