An on line discussion of books that have been or are currently being read by members of the Audubon Naturalist Society Conservation Philosophy Reading Group. We choose books, old and new, that collectively constitute the intellectual underpinnings of conservation philosophy.
Jan 26, 2009 - A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky
As of Thanksgiving Friday I'm about 1/3 through this book and enjoying it immensely. It's very entertaining, funny and informative at the same time. I love the way the author describes the baboon clan in such human terms, then wanders off and travels somewhere, telling us about the Masai or some other group of people, then returns to the baboons almost as if they were just another tribe or society, another collection of characters in the saga, which they are of course, having evolved in parallel with the other (human) primates that he encounters.
Review by Gregory Harris
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As of Thanksgiving Friday I'm about 1/3 through this book and enjoying it immensely. It's very entertaining, funny and informative at the same time. I love the way the author describes the baboon clan in such human terms, then wanders off and travels somewhere, telling us about the Masai or some other group of people, then returns to the baboons almost as if they were just another tribe or society, another collection of characters in the saga, which they are of course, having evolved in parallel with the other (human) primates that he encounters.
Here is a link to an interesting article about the author: AT HOME WITH: DR. ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY; Family Man With a Foot In the Veld
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