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	• A Primate's Memoir Robert M. Sapolsky Scribner, 2001 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 71 reviews view larger image
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Wonderful Book!

There are not enough good things to say about this book. A Primate's Memoir is not your typical intense intellectual read by any means, but if you're in the mood for a good read - pick this one up.

Baboons in the Mist

This was a humorous and entertaining book, though it could use a bit of editing. It's hard to believe that such an educated person could fall prey to the various scams. I enjoyed reading about the cultural differences and refreshing perceptions Mr.Sapolsky endured and experienced.

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You'll Wish You Had Finished That Degree In Biology...

What a great book! An absolute pleasure to read! The writing is honest and humorous, the stories are great, his baboons are complex and fascinating, and you close the book each time with a taste of real Africa and its peoples. For everyone who secretly wishes they had become a biologist instead, it's a wonderful adventure story for regrets and daydreaming.

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One of my favorite books this year

With healthy doses of humor, Sapolsky takes the reader on his journeys in Africa, learning not only about the baboons he studies, but about himself, about Africans and Africa (a super book just to learn more about that continent), and ultimately about how we humans are not so far from the primates he studies as maybe we'd like to believe.
I came to love the baboons he observed over the course of many years; each has a distinctive personality and way of interacting unique to that inidividual. However, much of the book doesn't center on the baboons, but on humans, and how we are to each other.
Immensely readable, highly enjoyable, and at times heart-breaking. I've given this book to my friends over and over.

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A Primate's Memoir

This is a wonderful book. One of those books that opens up Africa with all of it's charm and troubles, and reflects back to us how actually close we are to our baboon cousins.

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