PRIMATOLOGY TRANSFORMED
Given Goodall's contributions, primatology is now considered a personal, compassionate modern science directed by women.
THOROUGH & LONGITUDINAL STUDIES
"She changed the paradigm. She showed that in order to do good work, you can't expect to be done at three months. A lot of people just went out and did field studies for three months or six months, and they thought that they had gotten all the answers there were to get. Her study is still going on... There's so much to discover." |
"She goes out and immerses herself with the animals, not just day after day, but month after month and year after year. So that's the method she used, and that is what everyone has been doing every since."
-Craig Stanford (click to learn more), Co-Director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California
A PIONEER: GOODALL'S WORK REACHES PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT AGES AND PLACES
"Jane Goodall's trail-blazing path for other women primatologists is arguably her greatest legacy... Indeed, women now dominate long-term primate behavioural studies worldwide" |
“I knew that I could do it because Jane and Dian had done it before it. Without them, I don’t think I ever would have dreamed this big.” |
"Has primatology become a genre of |
"The composition of the profession has changed dramatically from the 1960s, when American women received no Ph.D.s, to today when they receive 78 percent of Ph.D.s in primatology granted each year" |