A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

Robert M. Sapolsky

304 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 Savannah baboons.“I had nev...

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informative 92%
adventurous 64%
funny 57%
reflective 50%
emotional 28%
inspiring 21%
lighthearted 21%
sad 21%
challenging 7%
hopeful 7%

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fast 28%
slow 21%

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