A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky

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

Robert M. Sapolsky

304 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 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 ne...

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informative 89%
funny 66%
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emotional 48%
reflective 43%
inspiring 35%
sad 20%
challenging 12%
lighthearted 10%
hopeful 7%
relaxing 5%
dark 2%

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slow 20%

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