A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient...
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Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Sapolsky, Robert M.

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

Dhs. 109.07

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

Dhs. 109.07
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.

"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa.

An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti--for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore enamored of his subjects--unique and compelling characters in their own right--and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him.

By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate's Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.

Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 03/12/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.92w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780743202411


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/03/2002 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 03/01/2002 pg. 73
Commonweal 06/17/2005 pg. 27

About the Author
Robert M. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including A Primate's Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers. He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. He lives in San Francisco


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