Topic: Craig Stanford
After 65 million years of peaceful plodding, they've been overtaken by modern humans, who are destroying their habitat, abducting them as pets and consuming them as food and medicine. Unless humans slow their depredations, the 45 tortoise species that remain will ...
Reviewed by Henry Nicholls. There are 45 tortoise species left on Earth, most of them endangered. "There is no group of vertebrates for which extinction risk in the 21st century is more real and more imminent," argues Craig Stanford, professor of biology ...
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With US industrial production numbers for October coming in at a 4 month low of 0.1% versus expectations of 0.4%, investors managed to drive up the major averages to end Tuesday in positive territory. Mr. Stanford, in the face of ...
There's nothing like a prime rib dinner to boost a guy's chances of getting lucky. Cristina Gomes and Christophe Boesch, primatologists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, weren't ready to call the chimps selfless ...
