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Who was her mentor with respect to the famous primatologist Jane Goodall?
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Jane Goodall was mentored by Louis Leakey, a famous paleoanthropologist. Leakey was the leader of the first major expedition to East Africa in the 1950s, and was a key figure in the discovery of the earliest hominid fossils in the region. He is best known for discovering the first fossil of the human ancestor Australopithecus afarensis.