Craig Stanford

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Craig Stanford
Occupation Professor
Nationality United States
Genres Anthropology

Craig Stanford is Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences and Co-Director of the USC Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California. He is known for his field studies of apes, monkeys and other tropical animals, and has published more than 130 scientific papers and a dozen books on the subject.

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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 is currently a faculty fellow at USC [1].

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[edit] Selected bibliography

  • Apes of the Impenetrable Forest, 2007
  • Exploring Biological Anthropology, 2007 (with John Allen and Susan Antón)
  • Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind, 2005 (with John Allen and Susan Antón)
  • 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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