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Cargando... A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboonspor Robert M. Sapolsky
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Such a vast repertoire of unique experience to draw from. Initially, the layout of the story seems a bit jittery, but I was won over at the end. Sapolsky's humour is oh, so dry, but the stories don't need any help; they are naturally funny. I liked how everything came into perspective for him about "his" baboons by the book's end. I was already there waiting for him. ( ) The title may be "A Primate's Memoir", but let's just put it out there that the primate in question is Robert Spolsky not a baboon. Had I known that, I probably wouldn't have read this particular book, but it was enjoyable. Sapolsky details his work with baboons, yes, but he spends at least as much, if not more, time describing anecdotes about his human interactions in Africa. My takeaway is there is a LOT of bribery and corruption in Africa. A lot may be an understatement. Sapolsky is a pretty witty guy, and I did laugh aloud a few times as he relates what seem like the most preposterous tales with enough detail to reassure the reader that he is not exaggerating. On the flip side, I really wanted even more about the baboon troop he followed. What he wrote about them was very interesting, and I could have a read an entire book strictly focused on them. The final chapter of the book is the perfect denouement as Sapolsky discovers a diseased baboon and must try to unravel this threat to his beloved baboon troop. I don't understand why the subtitle is "A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons" when it's not about baboons. I thought it would be a book about baboons, but well over half of it is about the people he met in Africa, all of whom he either describes as children, rascals, or incompetent corrupt thugs. Whenever he is alone with an African he seems to think they will murder him? He talks fondly about "my village" (of humans) and "my troop" (of baboons) in a way I found quite unsettling. He described fretting for a friend/employee who I assume is an adult (?) "like a worried parent". I just wanted a book about baboons. Years later, he named his children after baboons, you think he'd like baboons enough to write a book about them. The world did not need another outsider's perspective on Kenyan people and their neighbours, dear lord. Sidesplitting anecdotes plus insights about postcolonial Africa, large mammal researchers and vanishing habitat. Piercingly sad moments sneak up amidst the general jolly hurlyburly. I had to skip the last chapter about multiple deaths in the troop of baboons he studied. I loved what he wrote about Dian Fossey and the mountain gorillas. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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En la tradición de Jane Goodall y Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, uno de los divulgadores científicos más reconocidos en la actualidad, cuenta la fascinante historia de cómo dejó las comodidades de la universidad para compartir durante más de dos décadas su trabajo de campo con una tropa de traviesos babuinos en la sabana africana. Sólo un joven idealista podía aterrizar en el corazón de Kenia esperando encontrar ahí una versión animada de lo que había visto y estudiado hasta entonces en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Nueva York. Memorias de un primate combina serias observaciones científicas con comentarios irónicos sobre los desafíos y placeres de la vida en la selva del Serengueti. Sapolsky sobrevive a atrocidades culinarias y surrealistas encuentros a punta de pistola, mientras da buena cuenta de la invasión de la mentalidad turística en los vestigios más remotos del África virgen. Durante su investigación sobre las alteraciones en el sistema nervioso de los primates enfrentados a situaciones de estrés, se enamora perdidamente de estos animales, a primera vista agresivos y bastante antipáticos, y regresa a ellos verano tras verano. Aislado en la sabana, sin luz y sin agua, pero con el humor y la curiosidad siempre bien dispuestos, Sapolsky se convierte en un agudo obs No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)599.8651509676Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Mammals Non-human primates Old World Monkeys Baboons Specific topics Habits and behaviorClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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