Stanford, Craig B

Argues that the gap between apes and humans is very narrow, and the insistence on seeing it as vast and unbridgeable is more a product of fashion and prejudice than of clear thinking.

Argues that the desire for meat, and the eating, hunting, and sharing of meat, spurred the expansion of human brain size that led to the success of the human species, and describes the continuing social impact of the sharing of meat.

Explores how recent scientific discoveries have prompted a dramatic reappraisal of common beliefs about the history of humans.

Predicting the imminent extinction of the world's great apes, a leading primatologist explains the loss of evolutionary knowledge that would result from losing the world's animal species that most closely resemble humans.