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

from susanbevans

"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla." - from A Primate's Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, is the story of Robert M. Sapolsky's fiel...

from co_coyote

Robert Sapolsky is a neurobiologist at Stanford University. This is a memoir of field research he did on baboon behavior in Kenya in the beginning years of his career in the late 1970's. It is by turns funny, scary, and moving, sometimes all in the same paragraph. I am not an African hand by any ...

from banjo123

I enjoyed this book overall (Sapolsky is an entertaining writer) but I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't more science-y. The book is about the author's time studying baboons in Kenya. His focus was on the impact of an individuals place in the social structure and physical health and stress ho...

from susanbevans

"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla." - from A Primate's Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, is the story of Robert M. Sapolsky's fiel...

from banjo123

I enjoyed this book overall (Sapolsky is an entertaining writer) but I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't more science-y. The book is about the author's time studying baboons in Kenya. His focus was on the impact of an individuals place in the social structure and physical health and stress ho...