A Primate's Memoir
by Robert M. Sapolsky
Sapolsky's years studying baboon stress in Kenya, with hilarious and heartbreaking stories of the troop and of Africa. Science memoir at its best.
Read it if…
you want science, travel and humor in one book.
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Skip it if…
you want the stress science directly; see Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.
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Three things you will actually use
- Rank and stress are linked.
- Observe long enough and patterns emerge.
- Grief is primate-wide.
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Read the chapters on the troop's politics.
Our verdict
Sapolsky among baboons.
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