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Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say yes and not think too much about the consequences.
Jane Goodall
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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
Anthropologist
Environmentalist
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Primatologist
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Hampstead Village
Dame Jane Morris Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
Dame Jane Goodall
Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall
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