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A Primate's Memoir : A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the
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A Primate's Memoir : A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons Paperback - 2002

by Sapolsky, Robert M

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In an exhilarating account of his 21-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, Robert Sapolsky 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.

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  • Title A Primate's Memoir : A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons
  • Author Sapolsky, Robert M
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-03-12
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4022685-20
  • ISBN 9780743202411 / 0743202414
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.08 x 5.92 x 0.74 in (20.52 x 15.04 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: East Africa
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Baboons - Behavior - Africa, East, Sapolsky, Robert M
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00063522
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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I joined the baboon troop during my twenty-first year.

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  • Commonweal, 06/17/2005, Page 27
  • Entertainment Weekly, 03/01/2002, Page 73
  • New York Times, 03/03/2002, Page 20

About the author

Robert M. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Determined, The Trouble with Testosterone, and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers. His book Behave was a New York Times bestseller and named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. He and his wife live in San Francisco.