A Primate’s Memoir (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Autobiography and natural history
- Time of Work: 1978-2000
- Setting: East Africa
- Principal Characters: Robert M. Sapolsky, Rhoda, Soirowa, Richard, Samwelly, Lisa
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Anthropology, Nature writing
- Subjects: 1970’s, Africa or Africans, Twentieth century, 1980’s, Anthropology or anthropologists, 1990’s, Animals, Apes, Mammals, Primates
- Locales: Africa
“I joined the baboon troop during my twenty-first year,” Robert Sapolsky begins his memoir of twenty years of studying stress in baboons—and in humans, including himself—in East Africa. “I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.”
Sapolsky is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research of the National Museum of Kenya, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. A Primate’s...
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