Craig Stanford
Craig Stanford is Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology and Co-Director of the USC Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California. He is also a Research Associate in Herpetology at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. He is known for his field studies of great apes and other tropical animals, and has published more than 140 scientific papers and 17 books on the subject. He is best known for his detailed field study of the predator-prey ecology of chimpanzees and the animals they hunt in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, and for his long term study of the behavior and ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Background
Stanford received his B.A. in anthropology and zoology at Drew University, his M.A. in anthropology at Rutgers University, and his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. He taught at the University of Michigan and joined the University of Southern California in 1992. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Wenner Gren Foundation, Leakey Foundation, among others.
Selected bibliography
- "Evolution: What Every Teenager Should Know," 2014
- "Planet Without Apes," 2012
- The Last Tortoise, 2010
- Beautiful Minds, 2008 (with Maddalena Bearzi)
- Apes of the Impenetrable Forest, 2007
- Exploring Biological Anthropology, 2007 (with John Allen and Susan Antón); 4th edition forthcoming 2015.
- Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind, 2005 (with John Allen and Susan Antón); 4th edition forthcoming 2015
- Upright : The Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human, 2003
- Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature, 2001
- The Hunting Apes : Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior, 1999
- Meat-Eating and Human Evolution, 2001 (with co-editor H. Bunn)
- Chimpanzee and Red Colobus : The Ecology of Predator and Prey, 1998
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