And yes, she comes with a chimp.
"I've seen...little girls playing with Barbie dolls and certainly at the beginning, they were all very girly girly and I thought little girls need...some choice," Goodall continued.Noting that Barbies have come a long way from their origins, Goodall said, "Mattel has changed its range of dolls and there's all kinds of astronauts and doctors and things like that. So many children learn about me at school. They'll be thrilled to have the Barbie doll.
The 88-year-old primatologist came to fame for her studies of chimpanzees in the Gombe forest in Tanzania. She was only 26 years old when she left England on a life-changing trip to Africa and found herself a job as a research scientist. "I dreamed when I was 10 years old that I would go to Africa, live with wild animals, write books about them. Everybody laughed at me except my mother," said Goodall.
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