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Washington National Cathedral will host a memorial service for world-renowned ethologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, on November 12, 2025, at 11:00 am Eastern Time. The service will be available via livestream for the public to watch online.

Young chimpanzees are innovative, inventing new tools and improving on ones that adults use. New research suggests that creative experimentation could make children important drivers of cultural evolution.

Stone tools from Georgia’s Dzudzuana Cave reveal the earliest evidence of indigo processing, dating back 34,000 years to the Ice Age.

Alejandra Pascual-Garrido is a scientist who, inspired by Jane Goodall, studied chimpanzees at Gombe National Park. Read her moving tribute.

Husna Mashaka’s research uncovers how climate and vegetation shifts shaped ancient human behavior. Her work offers insights for building climate resilience today.

Leakey Foundation grantee Abby McClain studies the impact of death, grief, and loss among the chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania.

I have known Jane Goodall since 1970, when she gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to join her study of chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Like many others who were similarly blessed, that experience changed my life.

The Leakey Foundation is saddened to share the news that Dr. Jane Goodall has passed away at age 91. Her death leaves an immeasurable void in the scientific community and in our hearts.

Georgina Luti, a Kenyan geologist and Leakey Foundation Francis H. Brown African Scholar is working to determine dates for the Gondolin and Kromdraai caves in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind.

Ask Americans about the Scopes trial, and they might have heard of it as the “trial of the century,” a showdown over teaching human evolution. Less well known are its origins.