Robert M Sapolsky

A Primate's Memoir

Love, Death and Baboons

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert M. Sapolsky holds degrees from Harvard and Rockefeller Universities and is currently a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University and a Research Associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. He is the author of The Trouble with Testosterone, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (both finalists for the LA Times Book Award), and A Primate's Memoir. Sapolsky has contributed to Natural History, Discover, Men's Health, and Scientific American, and is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 132mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781529112306
• ISBN-10: 1529112303
• Artikelnr.: 57383517

Autorenporträt

Robert 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