Planet Without Apes

Name: Planet Without Apes
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ISBN: 9780674067042

ISBN-10: 0674067045

ISBN-13: 9780674067042

Edition: 2012

Authors: Craig B. Stanford

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Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans—threatens to become a reality within just a few human generations. We are on the verge of losing the last links to our evolutionary past, and to all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them. The crisis we face is tantamount to standing aside while our last extended family members vanish from the planet.Stanford sees great apes as not only intelligent but also possessed of a culture: both…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Craig B. Stanford is Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology and Co-Director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California.



Prologue: Save the Apes!



Heart of Darkness



Homeless



Bushmeat



Outbreak



In a Not-So-Gilded Cage



The Double-Edged Sword of Ecotourism



Ethnocide


Epilogue: May There Always Be Apes


Notes


Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Index