By examining the parallels between chimps and humans in her essay "Learning from Chimpanzees: A Message Humans Can Understand," Jane Goodall challenges conventional wisdom regarding the behavior and thought processes of animals. Goodall remembers her early years spent at the Gombe Stream Research Center studying wild chimpanzees in the 1960s, when it was frowned upon to give animals thoughts, emotions, or even personalities. She writes, "When I began my study of wild chimpanzees in 1960 at Gombe Stream Research Center it was not permissible, at least not in ethological circles, to talk about…