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

Jane Goodall died on October 1 at the age of 91. When I heard the news, my mind raced back 35 years to a conversation I had with the pioneering observer and student of chimpanzee behavior.

As the ‘90s began, Goodall had been studying chimps in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park for nearly 30 years. Her work illuminated the previously unknown complexity of these apes’ social lives. But I was surprised to learn that the genteel-looking British ethologist had assembled a one-of-a-kind collection of chimp skeletons.

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