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Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall is born in London, England to Mortimer, and engineer and Vanne, an author.
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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.
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Jane observes the chimpanzees eating meat for the first time, and later on hunting them
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Jane observes chimpanzees making tools out of plants to get termites to eat out of their mounds.
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Jane is accepted into Cambridge University.
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National Geographic sponsors Jane Goodall, allowing her to publish her first article "My life among wild chimpanzees."
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Van Lawick and Jane fall in love and marry. They then have a child named Hugo.
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Jane gets her Ph.D in ethology.
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Jane gets divorced with her current husband, and a year later marries Derek Bryceson
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Jane Goodall founds the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation.
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Jane begins groundwork for Chimpanzoo, and international research program of the Jane Goodall institute dedicated to the study of captive chimpanzees.