Column Anthropology

What Jane Goodall taught me about bones, loss and not wasting anything

Her legacy rests not just in stories of living chimps, but in the skeletons that endure

By Bruce Bower

Behavioral Sciences Writer

Jane Goodall sits outdoors on the grass, resting her hand on the back of a young chimpanzee, who sits close to her, holding her leg.

Primatologist Jane Goodall, who died on October 1, sits with a baby chimp named Zakayo the second at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre in Entebbe in 2018.

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Jane Goodall died on October 1 at the age of 91.