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  A Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa (Paperback) By (author) Robert M. Sapolsky

  

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  Short Description for A Primate's Memoir'I had never planned to become a Savannah baboon when I grew up; instead I assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,' writes the author in this chronicle of a scientist's coming of age in remote Africa. He writes about people and their society as he does about animals and theirs.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 04 April 2002
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Primates | Wildlife: Mammals | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9780099285779 ISBN 10: 0099285770
  • Sales rank: 78,915

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Full description for A Primate's Memoir

• 'I had never planned to become a Savannah baboon when I grew up; instead I assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,' writes Robert Sapolsky in this riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming of age in remote Africa. Upon graduating from college, a booksmart and naive Sapolsky leaves the comforts of the Northeastern United States for the very first time, to join a baboon troop in Kenya as a young transfer male'. An expert in primate behaviour, Sapolsky sets out to study the relationship between stress and disease. As he observes the Machiavellian politics of the troop, giving the primates biblical names and pinpointing his favourite (Benjamin) and his nemesis (Nebuchadnezzar), he also immerses himself in the society of the neighbouring Masai tribesmen and ventures far from his camp on a series of jaw-dropping adventures. Combining irreverence and humour with the best credentials in his field, Sapolsky writes as originally and vividly about people and their society as he does about animals and theirs. "A Primate's Memoir" is the culmination of over two decades of experience and research - an astonishing masterpiece from the unique talent Oliver Sacks has called 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time.'