First Look at Jane | National Geographic

Louis Leakey sent me to Gombe because he
believed that an understanding of
chimpanzees in the wild would help him
to better guess how our Stone Age
ancestors may have behaved
it had long been thought that we were
the only creatures on earth that used
and made tools man the toolmaker is how
we were defined and here was David
Greybeard
using a tool it was hard for me to
believe what I’d seen few days later
watch spellbound attempt to set off to a
termite mom picked a smaller heat wig
and stripped it of its leaves that was
object modification the crude beginning
of tool-making
it had never been seen before
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when I telegram the news to Louis Leakey
he responded that we must now redefined
man or accept chimpanzees as human my
observations had gone beat would
challenge human uniqueness and whenever
that happens there is always a violent
uproar there were some who had tried to
discredit my observations because I was
a young untrained girl and should
therefore be disregarded the result of
it all however was that Louis was able
to obtain a grant from the National
Geographic Society to continue my study
in addition they would be sending out a
photographer document the chimpanzees
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