Jane Goodall's "In The Shadow Of Man"

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"Since its original publication in 1971, Jane Goodall's pioneering field study of chimpanzees, "In the Shadow of Man", has become a classic of animal behavior study, and has made Goodall herself a household name and something of a celebrity. This is not simply because of the pioneering nature of her work. Equally important was the nature of the animals she studied: chimpanzees, creatures which are both fascinating and the closest evolutionary cousins to the human race--a view lately reaffirmed, as Stephen J. Gould notes in the Introduction to the revised edition--in the face of some earlier speculation that orangutans or even gorillas might be closer to us.

By implication, Goodall's study is not simply a behavioral study of another animal species, even one interesting and related ... "

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