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Only one human species inhabits our world today - Homo sapiens. But in the human evolutionary past there were times when multiple species lived together, sharing and competing for space, food and other resources. To understand how this co-existence may have influenced the course of our own evolution, Dr. Stanford has spent the past nine years studying the relationship among two great apes, the mountain gorilla and chimpanzee, in Uganda's Impenetrable Forest. This is the only spot on Earth where mountain gorillas and chimpanzees live together. The implications of their co-existence tell us much about our ancestors' lives.
Dr. Craig Stanford is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California, and co-director of USC's Jane Goodall Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990 and has conducted primate research in East Africa, South Asia and South America.
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