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Jane is born
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall is born in London, England to Mortimer, and engineer and Vanne, an author. -
Jane moves to Kenya
Jane couldn´t afford college but worked at Oxford College typing up documents, until one of her friends offered her a job in Kenya, where she decides to move to study chimpanzees. -
Meat-eating chimpanzees
Jane observes the chimpanzees eating meat for the first time, and later on hunting them -
Tool-making chimpanzees
Jane observes chimpanzees making tools out of plants to get termites to eat out of their mounds. -
Jane is accepted into Cambridge University.
Jane is accepted into Cambridge University. -
Jane Goodall sponsored by National Geographic
National Geographic sponsors Jane Goodall, allowing her to publish her first article "My life among wild chimpanzees." -
Jane gets married and has a child
Van Lawick and Jane fall in love and marry. They then have a child named Hugo. -
Jane gets her Ph.D.
Jane gets her Ph.D in ethology. -
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Jane gets divorced and married again
Jane gets divorced with her current husband, and a year later marries Derek Bryceson -
Jane Goodall starts her own institute
Jane Goodall founds the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation. -
Groundwork for Chimpanzoo
Jane begins groundwork for Chimpanzoo, and international research program of the Jane Goodall institute dedicated to the study of captive chimpanzees.