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• Fifty Years at Gombe

  by David Quammen + Follow

  National Geographic | October 2010

  In 1960 a spirited animal lover with no scientific training set up camp in Tanganyika’s Gombe Stream Game Reserve to observe chimpanzees. Today Jane Goodall’s name is synonymous with the protection of a beloved species. At Gombe—one of the longest, most detailed studies of any wild animal—revelations about chimps keep coming.

• The Man Who Wasn't Darwin

  by David Quammen + Follow

  National Geographic | December 2008

  Alfred Russel Wallace charted a great dividing line in the living world—and found his own route to the theory of evolution.

• The Post-Communist Wolf

  by David Quammen + Follow

  Outside | December 2000

  A lot of things in Romania suffered during the brutal reign of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu—human rights, liberty, economic development. But tucked away in the deep freeze lay a stunningly well-preserved wilderness high in the Carpathian mountains, where brown bears, wolves, and lynx still run free.