Part 1, The Adolescent Years, When I First Joined the Troop, Chapters 1-7, The Baboons, The Generations of Israel, Zebra Kabobs and a Life of Crime, The Revenge of the Liberals, The Masai Fundamentalist and My Debut as a Social Worker, The Coca-Cola Devil, Teaching Old Men About Maps, Memories of Blood, The East African Wars Summary and Analysis

Author Robert Sapolsky grew up wanting to be a primatologist. He read about primates before he was a teenager and wrote letters to primatologists. He even studied Swahili early in preparation for his future job. At age twenty-one he had the opportunity to study savanna...