USC Dornsife News

USC Dornsife researchers, including primate expert Craig Stanford, are working to understand how to better protect these animals, who could be extinct in just 100 years.

A new book by biologist and anthropologist Craig Stanford provides a pioneering overview of our knowledge of chimpanzees, challenging us to let apes guide our inquiry into what it means to be human.

USC Dornsife graduate student reveals that hundreds of endangered eastern chimpanzees inhabit a region of rapidly shrinking forest fragments in Uganda.

USC Dornsife professors across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences discuss different perspectives on the selfie, Oxford Dictionaries "Word of the Year."

Chimps use touches and noisy gestures when trying to get another chimp's attention, finds Maureen McCarthy, a USC Dornsife graduate student conducting research in Uganda. Her research explores self-awareness in great apes.

The impending tragic extinction of the great apes does not have to happen, USC Dornsife’s Craig Stanford argues in his new book. The biologist offers some solutions that can help save the apes' existence on Earth into at least the next century.

Maureen McCarthy, a USC Dornsife Ph.D. student, blogs about her yearlong research trip to Africa to study endangered chimpanzees and their shrinking habitat in fragmented forests.