{"product_id":"a-primates-memoir-a-neuroscientists-unconventional-life-among-the-baboons-paperback","title":"A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert M. Sapolsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 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 remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir 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. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore enamored of his subjects--unique and compelling characters in their own right--and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate's Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert M. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eDetermined\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble with Testosterone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhy Zebras Don't Get Ulcers\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eBehave \u003c\/i\u003ewas a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller and named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. He and his wife live in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 8.08 x 5.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52555635556645,"sku":"9780743202411","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2487\/2485\/files\/sjOin9n3pM9780743202411.webp?v=1781359437","url":"https:\/\/c4lhome.com\/products\/a-primates-memoir-a-neuroscientists-unconventional-life-among-the-baboons-paperback","provider":" Companion for Life Five Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}