Dr. Craig Stanford is a well-known authority on the behavior of primates and other animals, and on the biological roots of human behavior. He is Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Co-Director of the USC Jane Goodall Research Center. Stanford has conducted field research on primates (especially our close relatives the chimpanzee and mountain gorilla) and other animals for more than 20 years in Africa and Asia. He is known for his research on chimpanzee hunting and meat-eating, done in collaboration with Jane Goodall, and for his work on the ecological relationship between chimpanzee and gorillas in forests where the two apes occur together. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards for both his research and writing, and is a frequent guest on radio and tv. Stanford is the author of more than 120 scholarly and popular articles on animal behavior and human nature topics, including the widely used text book Biological Anthropology. Stanford has recently published Planet Without Apes (Harvard University Press, 2012) about the race against extinction for the great apes. He is currently working on a book about the behavioral biology of chimpanzees.