A Primate's Memoir：A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
出版时间:
2002-03
ISBN:
9780743202411
定价:
117.50
装帧:
平装
开本:
其他
纸张:
其他
页数:
304页
正文语种:
英语
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"IhadneverplannedtobecomeasavannababoonwhenIgrewup;instead,IhadalwaysassumedIwouldbecomeamountaingorilla,"writesRobertSapolskyinthiswittyandrivetingchronicleofascientist'scoming-of-ageinremoteAfrica.AnexhilaratingaccountofSapolsky'stwenty-one-yearstudyofatroopoframbunctiousbaboonsinKenya,"APrimate'sMemoir"interweavesseriousscientificobservationswithwrycommentaryaboutthechallengesandpleasuresoflivinginthewildsoftheSerengeti--formanandbeastalike.Overtwodecades,Sapolskysurvivesculinaryatrocities,gunpointencounters,andasurrealkidnapping,whilewitnessingtheencroachmentofthetouristmentalityonthefarthestvestigesofunspoiledAfrica.Asheconductsunprecedentedphysiologicalresearchonwildprimates,hebecomesevermoreenamoredofhissubjects--uniqueandcompellingcharactersintheirownright--andhereturnstothemsummeraftersummer,untiltragedyfinallypreventshim.
Byturnshilariousandpoignant,"APrimate'sMemoir"isamagnumopusfromoneofourforemostsciencewriters. RobertM.Sapolskyistheauthorofseveralworksofnonfiction,includingAPrimate'sMemoir,TheTroublewithTestosterone,andWhyZebrasDon'tGetUlcers.HeisaprofessorofbiologyandneurologyatStanfordUniversityandtherecipientofaMacArthurFoundationgeniusgrant.HelivesinSanFrancisco.
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内容简介:
"IhadneverplannedtobecomeasavannababoonwhenIgrewup;instead,IhadalwaysassumedIwouldbecomeamountaingorilla,"writesRobertSapolskyinthiswittyandrivetingchronicleofascientist'scoming-of-ageinremoteAfrica.AnexhilaratingaccountofSapolsky'stwenty-one-yearstudyofatroopoframbunctiousbaboonsinKenya,"APrimate'sMemoir"interweavesseriousscientificobservationswithwrycommentaryaboutthechallengesandpleasuresoflivinginthewildsoftheSerengeti--formanandbeastalike.Overtwodecades,Sapolskysurvivesculinaryatrocities,gunpointencounters,andasurrealkidnapping,whilewitnessingtheencroachmentofthetouristmentalityonthefarthestvestigesofunspoiledAfrica.Asheconductsunprecedentedphysiologicalresearchonwildprimates,hebecomesevermoreenamoredofhissubjects--uniqueandcompellingcharactersintheirownright--andhereturnstothemsummeraftersummer,untiltragedyfinallypreventshim.
Byturnshilariousandpoignant,"APrimate'sMemoir"isamagnumopusfromoneofourforemostsciencewriters.
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作者简介:
RobertM.Sapolskyistheauthorofseveralworksofnonfiction,includingAPrimate'sMemoir,TheTroublewithTestosterone,andWhyZebrasDon'tGetUlcers.HeisaprofessorofbiologyandneurologyatStanfordUniversityandtherecipientofaMacArthurFoundationgeniusgrant.HelivesinSanFrancisco.
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