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==Early life== Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April 1934 in [[Hampstead]], London,<ref>"Morris-Goodall, Valerie J" in Register of Births for Hampstead Registration District, volume 1a (1934), p. 748.</ref> to businessman {{ill|Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall|de|Mortimer Morris-Goodall}} (1907β2001) and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906β2000),<ref>''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916β2007''.</ref> a novelist from [[Milford Haven]], Pembrokeshire,<ref>''1911 England Census''</ref> who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.<ref name="JGBio"/> The family later moved to [[Bournemouth]], and Goodall attended [[Uplands School, Poole|Uplands School]], an independent school in nearby [[Poole]].<ref name="JGBio"/> As a child, Goodall's father gave her a stuffed toy chimpanzee named Jubilee as an alternative to a [[teddy bear]]. Goodall has said her fondness for it sparked her early love of animals, commenting, "My mother's friends were horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten me and give me nightmares." Jubilee still sits on Goodall's dresser in London.<ref>{{cite book |last=Goodall |first=Jane |author2=Phillip Berman |title=Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey |publisher=Warner Books |year=2000 |location=New York |page=4 |isbn=978-0-446-67613-7}}</ref>
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