I thought I should identify the twenty-five scientists, researchers, wildlife experts and others who shared their knowledge with us. In chronological order of their signature work, they are: Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki, 1948; Don Herbert, Mr Wizard, 1951; Frank Baxter and Eddie Albert, The Bell Science Laboratory Series, 1956; Marlon Perkins and Jim Fowler, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, 1963; Jacques Cousteau, The Undersea World, 1966; Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape, 1967; Jane Goodall, My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees, 1969; Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976; Jack Horkheimer, Star Hustler, 1976; Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb, 1980; Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, 1980; Dian Fossey, Gorillas In the Mist, 1983; Michio Kaku, Beyond Einstein, 1987; Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, 1988; Birutė Galdikas, Orangutans: Grasping the Last Branch, 1989; Richard Saul Wurman, TED Talks, 1990; Bill Nye, The Science Guy, 1993; Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, 1997; Jeff Corwin, Going Wild, 1997; Jack Horner, Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up, 1998; Josh Bernstein, Digging for the Truth, 2005; Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006; Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, 2014. It’s also worth noting that there are only three woman on this list, all of whom gained fame observing the great apes in their natural habitat. Both that they are women and on this list was by design. The legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey believed that understanding our closest relatives was critical to unlocking the mysteries of human evolution. He recruited his “Trimates” to do just that work and supported their efforts.
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