In the 1960s, Jane Goodall stopped eating meat. "I became vegan for ethical reasons," she said earlier this year.

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson In the beginning, Jane Goodall named the chimpanzees. This was controversial. It was 1960, back when scientists weren’t ...

Jane Goodall, the intellectual, soft-spoken conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking, immersive chimpanzee field research in which she documented the primates' distinct personalities and use of ...

Obtained a doctorate without receiving a bachelor's or master's first. Was the first scientist to give names to her research subjects instead of the conventional practice of assigning them numbers.

The late Dame Jane Goodall has been posthumously named “person of the year” for 2025 by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta).