She majored in psychology, but found her calling only after reading Jane Goodall's book In Shadow of Man. 'She was talking about chimpanzees, creatures that made friends, were jealous,had enemies, jockeyed for political position. As I read this book,I suddenly saw that here was a field of study that could explain both our physical origins and the origins of our behavior.'That field was anthropology.
Tunaelekea wapi waafrika/watanzania??? nafikiri ugumu wa maisha unapoteza nia nzima ya kujifunza (learning process); Enzi hizo kabla ya kuja kwa wakoloni, ilikuwa ni kawaida kwa mzazi kupoteza muda wa kutosha na mtoto wake akimfundisha maisha. Muhunzi alimfundisha mtoto wake uhunzi, mvuvi alienda na mwanae kuvua samaki,mchonga vinyago alimfundisha mwanae ujuzi wa kutosha kuhusu shughuli yake.