Jane Goodall : the woman who redefined man
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
Biography
xi, 740 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780395854051, 0395854059
64336038
Daddy's machine, Nanny's garden
War and a disappearing father
A child's peace
Child in the trees
Childhood's end
Dream deferred
Dream returned
Africa!
Olduvai
Love and other complications
The menagerie
London interlude
Lolui Island and the road to Gombe
Summer in paradise
David's gift
Primates and paradigms
The magical and the mundane
A photographic failure
A different language
First scientific conferences
A photographic success
Intimate encounters
Love and romance, passion and marriage
Babies and bananas
A permanent research center
Gombe from afar
A peripatetic Dr. van Lawick and the paleolithic vulture
Epidemic
Grublin
Promise and loss
Hugo's book
Regime changes
Abundance, estrangement, and death
Friends, allies, and lovers
Things fall down
and sometimes apart
Domesticity and disaster
A new normal
Picking up the pieces
Well-being in a cage
Orphans, children, and sanctuaries
Circumnavigations
Messages
Woman leaping forward