A primate's memoir: a neuroscientist's unconventional life among the baboons / Robert M. Sapolsky
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Scribner , 2001.Description: 304 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780743202411
- 599.8 SAP
- QL737.P93 S27 2001
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While Sapolsky's primate observations are always fascinating, his thoughts on Africa and Africans are even more compelling. As funny and irreverent as a good ol' boy regaling his friends with vacation-from-hell stories, Sapolsky can also be disarmingly emotional as in his clear-headed tribute to late gorilla researcher Dian Fossey, and his final chapters, which reveal his rage and impotence as he watched his baboons succumb to a horrific plague. Filled with cynicism and awe, passion and humor, this memoir is both an absorbing account of a young man's growing maturity and a tribute to the continent that, despite its troubles and extremes, held him in its thrall.
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