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| Acknowledgments | 9 | |
| Part 1 | The Adolescent Years: When I First Joined the Troop | |
| 1. | The Baboons: The Generations of Israel | 13 |
| 2. | Zebra Kabobs and a Life of Crime | 25 |
| 3. | The Revenge of the Liberals | 37 |
| 4. | The Masai Fundamentalist and My Debut as a Social Worker | 47 |
| 5. | The Coca-Cola Devil | 57 |
| 6. | Teaching Old Men About Maps | 65 |
| 7. | Memories of Blood: The East African Wars | 71 |
| Part 2 | The Subadult Years | |
| 8. | The Baboons: Saul in the Wilderness | 95 |
| 9. | Samwelly Versus the Elephants | 105 |
| 10. | The First Masai | 117 |
| 11. | Zoology and National Security: A Shaggy Hyena Story | 121 |
| 12. | The Coup | 127 |
| 13. | Hearing Voices at the Wrong Time | 135 |
| 14. | Sudan | 139 |
| Part 3 | Tenuous Adulthood | |
| 15. | The Baboons: The Unstable Years | 169 |
| 16. | Ol' Curly Toes and the King of Nubian-Judea | 177 |
| 17. | The Penguins of Guyana | 187 |
| 18. | When Baboons Were Falling Out of the Trees | 197 |
| 19. | The Old White Man | 209 |
| 20. | The Elevator | 213 |
| 21. | The Mound Behind the 7-Eleven | 219 |
| Part 4 | Adulthood | |
| 22. | The Baboons: Nick | 233 |
| 23. | The Raid | 243 |
| 24. | Ice | 249 |
| 25. | Joseph | 255 |
| 26. | The Wonders of Machines in a Land Where They Are Still Novel: The Blind Leading the Blind | 259 |
| 27. | Who's on First, What's on Second | 263 |
| 28. | The Last Warriors | 269 |
| 29. | The Plague | 275 |
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Jack Palelei
reviewed A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons on August 30, 2007 A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Read this This is coming from a right-brained person who never would have given this book a second glance had it not been forced on her by a friend. It's an irreverent and thoughtful tale of a neuroscientist's years observing a tribe of baboons in Kenya to learn about their social hierarchy and resulting stress levels. I loved it for its ability to make you relate to a tribe of alternately loving, back-stabbing, calculating, snobby, inclusive baboons like you would family; the fact that Sapolsky gets across the gist of his research without too obviously dumbing it down even though he obviously had to dumb it down; and the fact that I cried like a baby for an ancient, farting baboon named Isaac at the end. It's one of the most human books I've read in a long time, which is funny since humans are rarely mentioned and the ones that are are blood-drinking warriors. It's a beautiful book.
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Add A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the 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 exhilarati, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the 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 exhilarati, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons to your collection on WonderClub |
