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

4.0

An emotional rollercoaster of a book, a memoir of a primate on other primates. Insights into monkey & human cultures that are vastly different which are mostly non-judgemental, even though some is warrented (TW: FGM), the author is careful to avoid appropriation & is well aware of colonialism. There is a flood of characters but each is memorable. I felt the middle a little repetitive & my mind wandered a little but the ending was fantastically poignant. And I think the baboons came out as the better primates.