For an entire generation of women who grew up watching St. Louis Zoo director Marlin Perkins on “Wild Kingdom,” Jane Goodall — who studied chimpanzees in the wild for more 60 years — was an icon.

Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick (aka “Grub”) is the son of the famous primatologist Jane Goodall, whose work and life was the subject of National Geographic’s new documentary Jane Goodall: The Hope. The ...

ST. LOUIS — Thanks to Jane Goodall, we know that chimpanzees aren't all that different from humans. Her research taught the world that apes can communicate with one another and use tools to complete ...

‘Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Jane Goodall,’ which features augmented reality, opens at the Saint Louis Science Center on Friday. This Friday, the Saint Louis Science Center will be opening a ...

Renowned anthropologist Louis Leakey chose Goodall to do this work precisely because she was not formally trained. When she turned up in Leakey's office in Tanzania in 1957, at age 23, Leakey ...

Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work ...

Dr. Jane Goodall credits her groundbreaking chimpanzee research with helping her parent her son, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick. “I think that I learned the same sort of thing from watching chimpanzees ...