![]() ![]() Back then, we didn’t know how close humans and chimpanzees really are. ![]() That, Leakey thought, would help us to imagine how early stone-age people behaved. He was searching for the fossilised remains of the first humans in Africa, in the “Cradle of Man”, and he felt that if we found behaviour that was the same or similar in humans and chimpanzees today, then possibly this behaviour would have been present in a common ancestor. But for Louis Leakey, my mentor, it was the links with human behaviour that counted. Jane Goodall: Personally I was interested in learning about chimpanzees and their behaviour. The Focus: When you first went to Gombe National Park in 1960, what were you hoping to achieve? ![]() But how did this interpersonal factor come into being and how did it remain among the survivors on the battlefield of evolution? Over several decades, the British ethologist Jane Goodall observed the behaviour of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, aiming to improve our understanding not only of these remarkable animals but also of their closest relations – humankind. Trust is so hard to acquire and so easy to lose. In an interview with THE FOCUS, she talks about self-assurance, relaxed relationships and what makes a leader in the jungle. Primatologist Jane Goodall has spent a lifetime studying chimpanzees. ![]()
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