“But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.”

—  Jane Goodall

Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (2000), p. 215

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