Jane Goodall A Biography

Recent Polls Identify Jane Goodall To Be The Most Recognizable Living Scientist In The Western World. Her Work With Chimpanzees At The Gombe Stream Reserve In Tanzania Has Been Renowned As One Of The Great Achievements Of Scientific Research. Her Approach To Field Study, Once Ridiculed And Challenged By The Scientific World, Has Now Become The Model For Other Ethologists To This Insightful Biography, Meg Greene Tells The Story Of Goodalls Life From Her Early Days Growing Up In England Under The Influence Of Her Mother, Through Her Experiences As A Young Protg Of Anthropologist Louis Leakey Pioneering Techniques Of Investigating Chimpanzee Behavior In Africa, To Her Mature Career As An Expert On Chimpanzee Social Life And Her Ongoing Efforts Today To Promote The Conservation Of Wildlife.greene Describes How Goodalls Work Challenged And Changed Perceptions Of The Relations Between The Primate And Human Worlds.