He dedicated 60 years of his life to the study of Chimpanzees in the wild and discovered guidelines for unknown behaviors and skills in his research, fundamental contributions to understand the roots of human behavior and culture.
Jane Goodall died at 91 in California.
British ethologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall He died on Wednesday at 91 years in California for “natural causes.” She was considered the biggest world expert in Chimpanzees. From the institute that bears his name, in addition to confirming the news of his death, they stressed that his discoveries “Science revolutionized” and that it was a “defensor tireless for the protection and restoration of the natural world.”
For more than 60 years, Goodall He dedicated himself to the study of chimpanzees in the wild. It was a pioneer in the discipline and discovered guidelines for unknown behaviors and skills in their research, fundamental contributions to understand the roots of human behavior and culture.
The outstanding trajectory of Jane Goodall
At 23 years He traveled to Africa For the first time with the aim of investigating the chimpanzees in the jungle for a research project that was initially going to last six months. However, he ended up dedicating his entire life to this task.
There he met the anthropologist Louis Leakeywho invited her as Olduvai’s throat assistant, in search of fossil remains and clues about human ancestors and was her link for future missions.
In 1965 he concluded his doctorate in Ethology from the University of Cambridge and returned to the Gombe Park in Tanzania to deepen his research, sent by Leakey. The objective of the anthropologist, according to Goodall herself during a documentary by National Geographic, was to shed light on the prehistory of the human being.
Jane Goodall
Photo: UNESCO
There he discovered that the Chimpanzees eat meat, make tools, use plants as medicines, adopt young whose mothers have died or can transmit knowledge and experience feelings such as love, jealousy or anger.
In 1977 he founded the Jane Goodall Institute, focused on habitat conservation and the improvement of the life of the species.
From his years of work, he wrote a total of twenty books to turn his research. Among them he stood out ‘On the path of man‘(1971), Where Relatize these findings. It is considered one of the most important scientific works of the 20th century. He also published dozens of scientific articles and starred in audiovisual productions.
More than 40 universities around the world gave him a title of Dr. Honoris Causa and received other awards such as the Prince of Asturias of Scientific Research in 2003 or the Lady title of the British Empire that same year and the UNESCO Gold Medal (2006), among others.
Source: Ambito
