In the Shadow of Man [Hardcover]

Jane van Lawick-Goodall (Author), Hugo van Lawick (Photographer)

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• Hardcover: 297 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T); 1st edition (June 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395127262
• ISBN-13: 978-0395127261
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,998,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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JANE GOODALL continues to study and write about primate behavior. She founded the Gombe Stream Research Center in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, and the Jane Goodall Institute for Wild Life Research, Education, and Conservation to provide ongoing support for field research on wild chimpanzees. She is the author of many books, including two autobiographies in letters, Africa in My Blood and Beyond Innocence. Today Dr. Goodall spends much of her time lecturing, sharing her message of hope for the future, and encouraging young people to make a difference in their world.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 20th Century Field Scientist, April 8, 2002

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This review is from: In the Shadow of Man (Hardcover)

Jane Goodall is one of three women field observers hand-picked by Louis Leakey to observe great apes in the wild before they disappear, in the tradition of Linnaeus. Dian Fossey found herself embroiled in the fight to save the mountain gorillas, while Birute Galdikas was put off by the arboreal habits of the reclusive orangutans until techniques of observing from the treetops were invented. Jane turned out to be an apt successor to Banks, Solander and Darwin. The method, perhaps verbalized earliest by Schaller (predecessor of Fossey), is to observe animal society from inside it. Jane and Dian obtained immediate success by pretending to be a non-dominant female of the band. Jane concludes to conscious, intelligent and human-like society by observing the responsive interactions of the apes to each other and (to a lesser degree) to herself. Where other schools deny the validity of subjectivity or the use of the human analogy, Jane presents a pretty credible picture, and also the only epistemologically sound one. She finds, as it were, the essence of the apes, and finds that it is a simpler version of ours.