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Stanford 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (262 p., [8] p. of plates )$cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-06704-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPROLOGUE: Save the Apes! --$tONE: Heart of Darkness --$tTWO: Homeless --$tTHREE: Bushmeat --$tFOUR: Outbreak --$tFIVE: In a Not-So-Gilded Cage --$tSIX: The Double-Edged Sword of Ecotourism --$tSEVEN: Ethnocide --$tEPILOGUE: May There Always Be Apes --$tNotes --$tFurther Reading --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aPlanet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes-chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans-threatens to become a reality within just a few human generations. We are on the verge of losing the last links to our evolutionary past, and to all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them. The crisis we face is tantamount to standing aside while our last extended family members vanish from the planet. Stanford sees great apes as not only intelligent but also possessed of a culture: both toolmakers and social beings capable of passing cultural knowledge down through generations. Compelled by his field research to take up the cause of conservation, he is unequivocal about where responsibility for extinction of these species lies. Our extermination campaign against the great apes has been as brutal as the genocide we have long practiced on one another. Stanford shows how complicity is shared by people far removed from apes' shrinking habitats. We learn about extinction's complex links with cell phones, European meat eaters, and ecotourism, along with the effects of Ebola virus, poverty, and political instability. 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Eligible claimants include civilian onsite participants, downwinders who lived in areas currently designated by RECA, and uranium workers and ore transporters who meet specified residence or exposure criteria. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which oversees the screening, education, and referral services program for RECA populations, asked the National Academies to review its program and assess whether new scientific information could be used to improve its program and determine if additional populations or geographic areas should be covered under RECA. The report recommends Congress should establish a new science-based process using a method called "probability of causation/assigned share" (PC/AS) to determine eligibility for compensation. Because fallout may have been higher for people outside RECA-designated areas, the new PC/AS process should apply to all residents of the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and overseas US territories who have been diagnosed with specific RECA-compensable diseases and who may have been exposed, even in utero, to radiation from U.S. nuclear-weapons testing fallout. 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