Craig Stanford

Craig Stanford
Occupation	Professor
Nationality	United States
Genres	Anthropology
Influences Charles Darwin, Jane Goodall, Louis Leakey, Tim D. White, Donald Johanson

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 known for his field studies of apes, monkeys and other tropical animals, and has published more than 130 scientific papers and 15 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 gorilla 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. Stanford is an avid fan of the New York Yankees.

See also

• Biological Anthropology
• Primatology

Selected bibliography

"Planet Without Apes," forthcoming 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)
• 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

Articles

• Close encounters: mountain gorillas and chimpanzees share the wealth of Uganda's "impenetrable forest," perhaps offering a window onto the early history of hominids

External links

• Personal Website at USC
• California Science Center
• PBS interview
• National Geographic article

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