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Jane Goodall, the famed conservationist, died of natural causes at the age of 91.

Goodall's groundbreaking research revealed that chimpanzees use tools and have complex social structures.

She was a frequent visitor to Iowa, giving lectures and inspiring students for decades.

In the summer of 1963, a small dispatch buried deep inside a print edition of the Des Moines Register spoke about “an appropriately named young woman named Jane.” She wasn’t relapsing into “Me Jane — you Tarzan” life, the piece noted, but studying “a wicked caricature of the human species.”

At 29, that woman — Jane Goodall — was alone in the forests of Tanganyika, observing chimpanzees with barely more than a notebook and a pair of binoculars.

Few could have guessed that Goodall, who died of

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