Description
Blending scientific insight with vivid memoir, this book follows a young researcher’s years studying a troop of baboons on the African savannah and investigating how stress, social hierarchy, and daily conflict shape their lives. The baboons emerge as sharply drawn individuals, while the author’s encounters with fieldwork, wildlife, political upheaval, cultural difference, and his own youthful ambitions create an adventure as unpredictable as it is illuminating. Witty, candid, and deeply observant, the narrative explores the connections between primate behavior and human society, revealing how closely our emotions, rivalries, alliances, and vulnerabilities mirror those of the animals under study.
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paperback
W.F. Howes
Published Jan 1, 2002
515 pages
ISBN: 9781841975078
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Details
First Published
2001
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Primate's Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky.