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Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human

  • Written by Mireya Mayor, Director of Exploration and Science Communication, Florida International University
Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be humanJane Goodall appears on stage at 92NY in New York on Oct. 1, 2023.Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.

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