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 nev...

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informative 90%
funny 65%
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emotional 50%
reflective 45%
inspiring 37%
sad 20%
challenging 12%
hopeful 10%
lighthearted 10%
relaxing 5%
dark 2%

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slow 19%

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