Jane Goodall on Primates, and an Escape from Afghanistan

Jane Goodall looks at her chimpanzee friend
Illustration by Golden Cosmos

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To the Taliban, educating girls is a crime to be brutally suppressed. The head of a Kabul girls’ school watched as the group surged throughout Afghanistan, and she describes how she evacuated the whole school as the Taliban came back to power. And Jane Goodall, the primatologist—as revered a figure as modern science has to offer—talks about what she has learned about being human from studying our relatives.

How a Girls’ School Fled Afghanistan as the Taliban Took Over

To the Taliban, educating girls is a crime to be brutally suppressed. The head of a Kabul girls’ school describes how the whole school evacuated as the group came back to power.


Jane Goodall Talks with Andy Borowitz

The primatologist on what she has learned about being human from studying our relatives.


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