Monkey deities" is a series inspired by the oldest human ancestors. We come from East Africa. This discovery from the 1960s belongs to Louis Leakey, paleoanthropologist and teacher of Jane Goodall. It was thanks to him that the researcher devoted her life to chimpanzee research. Leakey's premise was to study the life of apes, creatures closest to man. Studies of the life of chimpanzees (our closest relatives) in their natural habitat in Gombe provided extraordinary discoveries. We got to know their behavior and social structure, but we also learned how the first people behaved. Thanks to a pair of scientists, we know the biological basis of modern man's behavior, "covered with a thin varnish of culture". Jane Goodall, a scientist, also changed research methods, not distancing herself, but on the contrary establishing a thread of understanding with the studied "objects", including giving them names. So we got to know, among others the chimpanzee Flo or the brave David Greybeard. “I was wearing sandals and I was throwing piles of red leaves around the chapel on the hill with them. There was a graveyard with rows of monkey deities, partly dressed in red cloaks and woolen hats."
" Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey."
