Almost Human (Strum) by Strum Shirley - 1990-09-17

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New York: Norton, 1987. 294pp. Extremities lightly rubbed; fore-edge lightly soiled; some underlining first 60 pages. Illus.; biblio.; index.. Paperback. G+.

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. Softcover. Very Good. 99x16x148. Vividly written and filled with fascinating insights, Almost Human chronicles thirty years of Shirley Strum's fieldwork with a troop of olive baboons nicknamed the Pumphouse Gang. From the first paragraph, the reader is drawn along with Strum into the world of the baboons, learning about the tragedies and triumphs of their daily lives-and of her own voyage of courageous scientific discovery. In the same way that Jane Goodall's pioneering study of chimpanzees revealed their likeness to humans, Strum's work shows how, contrary to the popular image and the scientific evidence of the time, the more distantly related baboons are just as socially savvy. Almost Human includes her groundbreaking discovery that social finesse, rather than male dominance and aggression, plays a crucial role in baboon society, and Strum relates the drama of a daring translocation experiment with the Pumphouse Gang that ultimately ensured their… Read More