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A Primate's Memoir

A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons

A Primate's Memoir( )
Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
ISBN:978-0-7432-0241-1
Publication Date:Mar 2002
Publisher:Scribner
Imprint:Scribner
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.00USD $18.00
Book Description:

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of savanna baboons. "I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in...
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Travel / Africa / East / General
Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.438 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.555 Pounds
Author Biography
Sapolsky, Robert M. (Author)
Robert M. Sapolsky is a Professor of Biology & Neurology at Stanford & a Research Associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. He is the author of "The Trouble with Testosterone" & "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers", both Los Angeles Times Book Award finalists. A regular contributor to Discover & The Sciences & a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, Sapolsky lives in San Francisco, California.

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