Item Description: |
On cover: Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould. Includes index. |
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Physical Description: |
xix, 297 p., [64] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: |
Bibliography: p. [287]-289. |
ISBN: |
0395331455 (pbk.) : |
Author Notes: |
Following Leakey's suggestion that a field study of some of the higher primates would be a major contribution to the understanding of animal behavior, she began studying the chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1960. Although she had no undergraduate degree, Goodall earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965, based on her first five years of research at the Gombe Center. After more than 20 years of extensive study and direct contact with wild chimpanzees in their natural habitat, Goodall continues to research, teach, and write about primate behavior today. (Bowker Author Biography) |