- Bavianen, Social life and customs, Baboons, East Africa
The author offers a memoir of his two decades in the field studying Kenyan baboons as he describes the members of the baboon troop and their behavior and his interaction with the neighboring Masai tribe.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Robert M. Sapolsky
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 305
- Publisher
- Vintage, Jonathan Cape, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841975078
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“I joined the baboon troop during my twenty-first year.”
Robert Maurice Sapolsky (born 1957) is an American scientist and author. He is currently professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, and by courtesy, Neurosurgery, at Stanford University. In addition, he is a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. --From Wikipedia
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