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Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.
Jane Goodall
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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
Anthropologist
Environmentalist
Ethologist
Primatologist
University Teacher
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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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In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.
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Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.
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