Download or read book Planet Without Apes written by Craig B. Stanford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.