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Stanford, Craig B. 1956-

Planet without apes/ Craig B. Stanford - First Harvard University Press paperback edition. - 262 pages : 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

A warning that the extinction of the great apes -- chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans--will become 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.

ISBN: 0674416848 9780674416840

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB4C2635 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016931506 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Apes.
Endangered species.
Extinct animals.
Apes.
Endangered species.
Extinct animals.

LC Class. No.: QL737.P96 / .S733 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 599.82