Birute Galdikas: Dian Fossey And Jane Goodall

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I choose Birute Galdikas because she studied evolution and orangutans. She’s also very similar to Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall who are very well known anthropologist. I found her study of orangutans very unique, because they aren’t mentioned often when talking about evolution, but they share many characteristics with humans. Her contributions to the field of anthropology include, providing evidence of similarity between orangutans and Homo sapiens. The research process took a while, however, using her organization website helped a lot since it contained a lot of specific information about Birute Galdikas, and what she does as an anthropologist. Creating the Facebook page was tiresome, it was difficult to choose what pictures what

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