"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa.
An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti -- for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore enamored of his subjects -- unique and compelling characters in their own right -- and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him.
By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate's Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.
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超级喜欢的一位教师，一位作者。这位教授曾经获得过全美教学奖，也获得过麦卡锡天才奖。
评分Much fun to read and too much fun to be considered as a "scientific" book.
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评分超级喜欢的一位教师，一位作者。这位教授曾经获得过全美教学奖，也获得过麦卡锡天才奖。
评分非常吸引人的书！本书作者曾经做过神经外科医生，后来去非洲研究动物行为，获过全美教学奖，课堂上经常实力吐槽斯坦福大学……这样的教授写的书怎么可能错过！
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