Goodall Plagiarism

           Wow! I cannot believe this. From what I about Jane Goodall she is a very upstanding individual and definitely does no seem like the kind of person to do something like this. But on the other hand, I know a thing or two about the importance of not plagiarizing since we hear it almost everyday at school. This is a very serious act of plagiarism because it is so blatant. If you literally copy a paragraph from somebody else's writing it is a big deal. Some of the things that we might need to know is whether or not she specifically wrote that in on purpose. It could be some sort of thing where she left the citation and credit giving to her editors and they didn't do it. It may be an honest mistake on the part of Jane and her co-author, but it is still unacceptable and a very serious case of plagiarism.
            A few of the things mentioned in the article make this seem like it may have been a mistake. Her statement about it kind of suggests that she just found the sources and didn't specifically write them into the book, which leaves her co-author probably to blame. This doesn't excuse any part of this act, but is just something to consider. I think that they should definitely make it well known through the media in order to fix the problem. This article, for example, now tells me where her information comes from and gives the sites much more credit in people's eyes than they would've gotten had they been cited correctly. People don't really care about the citations when they read a book, except when they are done incorrectly. As long as they fix the new editions and make their mistake well known and available so that people with the book can see it, I think that it will go pretty well and will mend the issue. Although it is plagiarism for sure, it can be made up for and I think that they will.