Plagiarism is a very serious problem which has serious consequences. You all have heard this before-- hopefully-- but plagiarism is basically stealing the work of others without saying you did. This happened with Jane Goodall's new book: Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants, in that some of her sources that she used for phrases and such that were useful she did not site properly, which isn't good.
To evaluate this, you would need to look back through all the sources that she said she used and either compare it with all the book or just go through and make sure that everything is right. It takes time to do this, but it's good someone found this. What makes this situation more serious than it already is is that, well really that it happened, and that the problem was discovered after the book was already published and ready to go on sale.
What makes this less serious sis how Goodall says how she is going to fix it and how sorry she is that this happened and how her publisher says they're sorry. Her co-author, though, Gale Hudson, seems to be partly at blame for just running something like spell check and computer programs and then passing it on, and then she didn't express and remorse about what happened, so that's not too good on her behalf.
Goodall, Hudson, and the book's publisher could fix this problem by, next time or right now, going through their book, each on their own, to go through it completely and check all of the sources with what they have as being from there and any other passages, just in case, and then they might/probably would've found what was wrong.
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