Robert M Sapolsky

A Primate's Memoir

A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

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Produktbeschreibung

In an exhilarating account of his 21-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, Robert Sapolsky interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti--for man and beast alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner Book Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780743202411
• ISBN-10: 0743202414
• Artikelnr.: 22466986

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Sapolsky

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Part 1. The Adolescent Years: When I First Joined the Troop
1. The Baboons: The Generations of Israel
2. Zebra Kabobs and a Life of Crime
3. The Revenge of the Liberals
4. The Masai Fundamentalist and My Debut as a Social Worker
5. The Coca-Cola Devil
6. Teaching Old Men About Maps
7. Memories of Blood: The East African Wars
Part 2: The Subadult Years
8. The Baboons: Saul in the Wilderness
9. Samwelly Versus the Elephants
10. The First Masai
11. Zoology and National Security: A Shaggy Hyena Story
12. The Coup
13. Hearing Voices at the Wrong Time
14. Sudan
Part 3: Tenuous Adulthood
15. The Baboons: The Unstable Years
16. Ol' Curly Toes and the King of Nubian-Judea
17. The Penguins of Guyana
18. When Baboons Were Falling Out of the Trees
19. The Old White Man
20. The Elevator
21. The Mound Behind the 7-Eleven
Part 4: Adulthood
22. The Baboons: Nick
23. The Raid
24. Ice
25. Joseph
26. The Wonders of Machines in a Land Where They Are Still Novel: The Blind
Leading the Blind
27. Who's on First, What's on Second
28. The Last Warriors
29. The Plague