COMMENT | Since her passing on Oct 1, much has been written, retold and recounted about Jane Goodall and her groundbreaking work among chimpanzees, one of five species of “great apes”.

These include the orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, bongo and us, modern humans. Her work over the past seven decades deserves every inch of praise and more.

Like the other great woman scientist before her, Marie Curie, who studied radioactivity with rare passion and zeal, she dedicated her life to studying our closest relatives, the chimpanzees.

Until then, the chimpanzees had been reduced to a...