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Book: A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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  1. Robert M. Sapolsky _ A Primate's Memoir: A

    Two fantasies dominated my darting then. I wanted to dart Fritz Lipmann. Lipmann was an incredibly famous biochemist, got the Nobel Prize decades ago, and now was an august octogenarian who would spend his day shuffling around the campus in his running shoes, endlessly passing my first-floor dorm window. I would get him in my blowgun sights from behind my biochemistry textbooks {which were half about him}, choose between his rear end and shoulders, try to calculate his body weight for a proper dosage. I refrained from darting, however.
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  2. Robert M. Sapolsky _ A Primate's Memoir: A

    Suddenly, I get this giddy desire to shock these guys a little. I continue, "These baboons really are our relatives. In fact, this baboon is my cousin." And with that I lean over and give Daniel a loud messy kiss on his big ol' nose. I get more of a response than I bargained for. The Masai freak and suddenly, they are waving their spears real close to my face, like they mean it. One is yelling, "He is not your cousin, he is not your cousin! A baboon cannot even cook ugali!" {Ugali is the ubiquitous and repulsive maize meal that everyone eats here. I almost respond that I don't really know how to cook the stuff either, but decide to show some prudence at last.} "He is not your cousin!
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  3. Robert M. Sapolsky _ A Primate's Memoir: A

    We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
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