McKenzie students present original research to Dr. Jane Goodall

McKenzie students present original research to Dr. Jane Goodall

SALEM: On Friday, April 11, 2025, two McKenzie students presented their research to a full-capacity 500 seat theater, which featured in its front row a very famous special guest: Dr. Jane Goodall, the primatologist and chimpanzee-studying legend. Thanks to McKenzie’s connections to the Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School in Salem, we were invited to send a group or two to share at this once-i...

A scientific team in the US has announced the completion of sequencing the genomes of all great ape species. What does it actually mean to sequence a genome, how is it done, how difficult is it, and what good is it for us? What can we learn about ourselves from the genetic information of our closest evolutionary relatives? We speak to a molecular geneticist who considers the current result to be very significant.

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