Jane Goodall visits a chimpanzee rescue center on June 9, 2018, in Entebbe, Uganda. | Sumy Sadurni/AFP via Getty Images Most people know Jane Goodall, the eminent primatologist who died on Wednesday at 91, for her singular, field-defining work on wild chimpanzees. She first entered the field in the early 1960s with no formal academic training, at a time when influential scientific frameworks like behaviorism often viewed animals as little more than stimulus-response machines. Unencumbered by scientific orthodoxy, Goodall helped the world see chimps as socially and cognitively sophistic...

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