Throughout all of history, women have played a significant role in
shaping the political and social history of our world. They have and still
continue today to impact virtually every topic that has ever been debated.
From standing up against the common belief that women were incapable of
being involved in the same things men were, to making new discoveries in
science, art, education and much more, women have made a considerable
One such woman is an individual by the name of Jane Goodall. Jane
was born in London, England in 1934, and grew up on the southern coast of
England in Bournemouth. Ever since she was young, Jane always dreamed
of working with wildlife. At the age of 23, she accompanied a friend to
Kenya, Africa where she first heard about Dr. Louis Leakey, a
paleontologist and anthropologist. Jane later became his assistant, traveling
with him on his expeditions. In 1960, they began to work on a project which
Jane is best known for, studying chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in
This all began Jane's road toward making numerous impacts on
society. Her largest impact was of course her discoveries on wildlife. After
many months at Gombe, she was able to get close enough to the
chimpanzees to study their habits, and make striking discoveries. She was
able to relate the chimpanzees to human beings, as they hunted for food and
used tools just like us. By doing this, Jane was able to help future scientists
to learn more about the rarely observed lives of these species.
Another enormous impact Jane made on society was her ability to
make it aware to the people that many of these species such as the
chimpanzees, were becoming extinct because of practices like hunting and
poaching. She took this concern even further and set up chimpanzee
sanctuaries for the care and rehabilitation of orphaned chimpanzee
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