A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780965126786 (0965126781)
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Scribner
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Africa,
Science,
Biology,
Animals,
Anthropology,
Psychology,
Neuroscience
this book was right up my alley. and i loved it. easily the best book i've read in a long while.
If you ever doubt that we humans share an ancestor with other primates, just read a bit about the behavior of male baboons! You may recognize your husband, president, son, or even yourself.Over a period of twenty years, Robert Sapolsky spent about three months of every year in Kenya observing the s...
One of the best memoirs ever written. Funny as hell, and smart, too.