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Planet Without Apes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674067882
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Planet Without ApesDDC classification:
  • 599.88
LOC classification:
  • QL737
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Save the Apes! -- One: Heart of Darkness -- Two: Homeless -- Three: Bushmeat -- Four: Outbreak -- Five: In a Not-So-GildedCage -- Six: The Double-Edged Sword of Ecotourism -- Seven: Ethnocide -- Epilogue: May There Always Be Apes -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Can we live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth, and all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them? Extinction of the great apes threatens to become a reality within a few human generations. Stanford tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Save the Apes! -- One: Heart of Darkness -- Two: Homeless -- Three: Bushmeat -- Four: Outbreak -- Five: In a Not-So-GildedCage -- Six: The Double-Edged Sword of Ecotourism -- Seven: Ethnocide -- Epilogue: May There Always Be Apes -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Can we live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth, and all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them? Extinction of the great apes threatens to become a reality within a few human generations. Stanford tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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