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Author Peterson, Dale.

Title Jane Goodall : the woman who redefined man / Dale Peterson.

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  599.885 G61Bp 2006    ---  Available
Description xi, 740 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [704]-711) and index.
Summary When Goodall first presented her discoveries about chimpanzees at a scientific conference, she was ridiculed by the chairman. She was too young, too blond, too pretty to be a serious scientist, and worse yet, she had virtually no formal scientific training. She had been a secretarial school graduate whom Leakey had sent out to study chimps only when he couldn't find anyone better qualified. And he couldn't tell her what to do in the field--nobody could--because no one before had made such an intensive and long-term study. Biographer Peterson shows how remarkable Goodall's accomplishments were, detailing not only how she revolutionized the study of primates, our closest relatives, but how she helped set radically new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior. And he reveals the very private quest that led to another sharp turn in her life, from scientist to activist.--From publisher description.
Subject Goodall, Jane, 1934-
Primatologists -- England -- Biography.
Chimpanzees -- Tanzania -- Gombe Stream National Park.
Ethology -- Tanzania -- Biography.
Animal Welfare -- Tanzania -- Biography.
Pan troglodytes -- Tanzania -- Biography.
ISBN 0395854059
9780395854051
Standard No. YDXCP 2429362
IG# 0395854059
NLM 101294371
NZ1 10699900

 
    
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