Jane Goodall, 1934-2025

In the steamy tangle of Tanzania‘s Gombe Stream National Park, a young Englishwoman once crouched for hours, banana in hand, willing herself invisible. It was 1960, and Jane Goodall — 26 years old and with no degree, just a stubborn dream sparked by a childhood of Tarzan of the Apes — upended science with a single observation: Chimps don’t just eat termites. They fish for them, wielding twig tools with paws that suddenly seemed kin to our own. That moment, caught in grainy National Geographic footage, didn’t just reveal tool use, it redrew the line between beast and human. Goodall, who died Oct. 1 at 91 while on a speaking tour in California, spent six decades blurring that line, turning a solitary stakeout into a global

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