A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

This book is a memoir of more than twenty years of acquaintance of the famous primatologist Robert Sapolsky with East Africa. As a very young scientist, the author first came to the reserve in Kenya with the intention of testing his hunches about the nature of stress in humans on wild baboons, which is not surprising, given how similar primates are to humans in their biological and psychological r...