common practice<\/a> to use animal names.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was criticized as unscientific,\u201d says Mireya Mayor, an anthropologist and primatologist at Florida International University in Miami, \u201cbut she proved that science could extend its boundaries without losing rigour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goodall was among the first to show that animals had emotions, empathy and culture, traits that had been reserved for humans, Mayor says. Her research changed how animal studies were conducted, she adds.<\/p>\n
Her discoveries in Gombe National Park \u201credefined humanity\u201d, says Nick Boyle, executive director of Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Goodall challenged the idea that chimpanzees were herbivores, and showed that they ate meat, hunted and engaged in warfare, he adds. In 1973, Goodall observed a social divide between two chimpanzee communities that led to a four-year conflict and the deaths of all of the male apes in one of the communities.<\/p>\n
Inspiring women scientists<\/p>\n
Beyond primatology, Goodall\u2019s legacy is the generations of women she inspired to follow in her footsteps into fieldwork, says Mayor. In 1961, Goodall was one of the few students accepted into a PhD at Cambridge without an undergraduate degree. She completed her PhD in 1965.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe showed that a young woman with no formal scientific training could rewrite science and the understanding of animals on such a fundamental level,\u201d adds Mayor.<\/p>\n
Alison Behie, an anthropologist at the Australian National University, was one of the women Goodall inspired. After attending a talk by Goodall, Behie says she switched her undergraduate major from microbiology to anthropology and started taking primatology and conservation courses. \u201cIt was just a happy coincidence, but she came to speak at the exact time that I was not quite sure what sort of science I wanted to do,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n
In 2017, Behie introduced eight of her female students to Goodall during her visit to Australia. \u201cIt was a full circle for me to be able to show my own students what had inspired me to go down this path.\u201d<\/p>\n
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