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A Primate's Memoir

by Robert M. Sapolsky

  • FINISHED
  • Finished April 2021
  • First published 2001

neuroscience stress primates

Sapolsky recounts more than twenty years of field work with a troop of baboons in Kenya.   Along the way he explains how stress and social rank affect health and the brain.