A Primate's Memoir：A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

作者: Robert M. Sapolsky 著

出版社: Scribner

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

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>自然科学

"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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"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.
作者简介:
RobertM.Sapolskyistheauthorofseveralworksofnonfiction,includingAPrimate'sMemoir,TheTroublewithTestosterone,andWhyZebrasDon'tGetUlcers.HeisaprofessorofbiologyandneurologyatStanfordUniversityandtherecipientofaMacArthurFoundationgeniusgrant.HelivesinSanFrancisco.

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