Primatology is an area of science with one of the highest proportions of women to men Caitlin Starowicz, Producer, She Walks with Apes When it came to choosing three people whom he’d send to ...

When you later wrote to your mentor, Louis Leakey, about what you'd seen, he replied: "We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human." ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. National Geographic Documentary Films: Directed by Brett Morgen with music by composer Philip Glass, the feature ...

When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met, he asked her to help with illustrations for his upcoming (1934) book Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of What is Known about the Origin of Man.

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Most of us don’t enter upon our life’s destiny at any neatly discernible time. Jane Goodall did. On the morning of ...

The adventure writer Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote some eighty novels based upon two characters: Tarzan and John Carter. Tarzan lived among the apes in Africa, and John Carter transported himself ...

Here’s a look at the life of world-renowned primatologist, activist and conservationist Jane Goodall. Personal Birth date: April 3, 1934 Birth place: London, England Birth name: Valerie Jane ...