A genuine article, and a fraud.(BOOKS)(BIOGRAPHY)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: January 7, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: John M. and Priscilla S. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Jane Goodall, a comely Englishwoman who, in 1960 at age 26, went to live among the chimpanzees in Gombe, along Lake Tanganyika in Africa, was the first researcher to discover and document that chimpanzees make and use tools and eat meat (let alone dance). She also was among the first scientists to demonstrate that chimps and other large animals can have personalities.

Unencumbered with scientific training (she had taken a secretarial course rather than going to college) but armed with a hardy ...

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