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Planet Without Apes Hardcover - 2012

by 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 toolmakers and social beings capable of passing cultural knowledge down through generations. Compelled by his field research to take up the cause of conservation, he is unequivocal about where responsibility for extinction of these species lies. Our extermination campaign against the great apes has been as brutal as the genocide we have long practiced on one another. Stanford shows how complicity is shared by people far removed from apes shrinking habitats. We learn about extinction s complex links with cell phones, European meat eaters, and ecotourism, along with the effects of Ebola virus, poverty, and political instability.

Even the most environmentally concerned observers are unaware of many specific threats faced by great apes. Stanford fills us in, and then tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future."

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  • Title Planet Without Apes
  • Author Craig B. Stanford
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 261
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Belknap Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2012
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780674067042 / 0674067045
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.87 in (19.56 x 13.72 x 2.21 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Endangered species, Apes
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.88

About the author

Craig B. Stanford is Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
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