Jane Goodall may be the world's most famous primatologist-50 years ago, she became the first to prove that nonhuman animals make tools-but lately she's been spending more time focusing on a life form much less intelligent than the chimpanzees she studied in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park. In fact, one that has no brain at all: plants. Her newest book, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants (Grand Central Publishing, April 2013), cowritten with Gayle Hudson, chronicles her lifelong love of all things leafy. In it, she writes, "There would be no chimpanzees without plants-nor human beings either" and confesses that she might never have started studying apes had she not, as a child, been obsessed with Africa's forests.
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