She redefined what it means to be human, kicked off a 60-year career as the most famous scientist on the planet, and started with no formal scientific training, just a notebook and a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee. This episode is a deep dive into Dame Jane Goodall, who passed away on October 1, 2025, at the age of 91, and the radical observations that dismantled the boundary between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.

We trace her early life in Bournemouth, the Jubilee toy that her father gave her against her mother's friends' protests, her unlikely path to working with Louis Leakey at the Olduvai Gorge, and her arrival at Gombe Stream in 1960. We unpack the breakthrough that broke a centuries-old definition of humanity, when she watched David Greybeard strip a twig and use it to fish termites from a mound, proving that too ...