Jane Goodall died Wednesday. As she was universally regarded as the greatest living expert on chimpanzees, her passing is a momentous event.

It’s one that comes at a time of upheaval in the field she helped create.

Goodall’s career commenced when she traveled to Tanzania in 1960 and began studying chimps in the wild.

Some of her revelations, like the discovery chimps can make simple tools, showed their commonality with us.

Others, like the finding they sometimes consume each other’s babies, displayed the gulf between our species. 6

Her admirers focused on the kinship, and an oft-repeated claim buttressed the belief they’re like us: We share 98.6% of our genes with chimpanzees.

Yet a burgeoning conflict over the extent of our likeness has been hastened by a study published in Apr

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