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Science news this week: Famed primatologist Jane Goodall dies, Iran sinks at an alarming rate, and scientists create human egg cells from skin

Science news this week: Famed primatologist Jane Goodall dies, Iran sinks at an alarming rate, and scientists create human egg cells from skin

Leading our coverage this week was the passing of famed primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, who died of natural causes on Wednesday (Oct. 1) at age 91. Goodall became renowned for her pioneering studies of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. She arrived at the park early in her career with no formal academic training in …

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