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Jane Goodall

The Woman Who Redefined Man

By Dale Peterson

Hardcover | 9780395854051

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When Louis Leakey first heard about Jane Goodalls discovery that chimps fashion and use tools, he sent her a telegram: Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human. But when Goodall first presented her discoveries at a scientific conference, she was ridiculed by the powerContinue

When Louis Leakey first heard about Jane Goodalls discovery that chimps fashion and use tools, he sent her a telegram: Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human. But when Goodall first presented her discoveries at a scientific conference, she was ridiculed by the powerful chairman, who warned one of his distinguished colleagues not to be misled by her glamour. She was too young, too blond, too pretty to be a serious scientist, and worse yet, she still had virtually no formal scientific training. She had been a secretarial school graduate whom Leakey had sent out to study chimps only when he couldnt find anyone better qualified to take the job. And he couldnt tell her what to do once she was in the field nobody couldbecause no one before had made such an intensive and long-term study of wild apes. Dale Peterson shows clearly and convincingly how truly remarkable Goodalls accomplishments were and how unlikely it is that anyone else could have duplicated them. Peterson details not only how Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates, our closest relatives, but how she helped set radically new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior. And he reveals the very private quest that led to another sharp turn in her life, from scientist to activist.

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  • The Primatologist

    In the world of primate research, scientists are strongly discouraged from establishing a personal relationship with the creatures they study. Most research centers number their monkeys and apes rather than naming them, often tattooing numbers into t ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

  • Jane Goodall By Dale Peterson

    Ten years in the making, Dale Peterson's definitive biography Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man finally shows us Goodall's life as a whole: her charmed childhood in the English countryside, her early career as a secretary, her association wit ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Hardcover 752 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0395854059
  • ISBN-13: 9780395854051
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Pub date: Nov 15, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1097 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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